Re: [9fans] New to plan9

2021-10-16 Thread hiro
maybe i can help by explaining the terminology that we use. you plan to use the old desktop as the central fileserver and you want the pi to be a netbooted terminal or cpu server. a fairly standard setup. definitely read all of the documents in /sys/doc, it's quite fun on the first time :) On 10

Re: [9fans] New to plan9

2021-10-16 Thread joseph turco
Thanks for the book resource. I plan to figure out how to get the two systems talking, and want to use the old desktop as the fs for the pi, while its running its own p9 instance. I am reading the man pages and the papers to see if I can find what i need for that to happen. As I said before, I am n

Re: [9fans] New to plan9

2021-10-16 Thread Conor Williams
that 800 and odd book looks good Mart... will have a read of it with freud later hahaha /c:2021161015 ps: i have my masters degree document available and theres some info on Plan 9 in it too from 02-2003 On Sat, Oct 16, 2021 at 12:36 PM Mart Zirnask wrote: > Also, if you want an overview of the

Re: [9fans] New to plan9

2021-10-16 Thread Mart Zirnask
Also, if you want an overview of the system, Nemo's book "Introduction to Operating Systems Abstractions Using Plan 9 from Bell Labs" is an awesome resource. http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/9.intro.pdf Best, Mart On Sat, 16 Oct 2021 at 13:14, Keith Gibbs wrote: > > Yeah, don't switch for simple tool

Re: [9fans] New to plan9

2021-10-16 Thread Keith Gibbs
Yeah, don't switch for simple tools like mothra, but as you learn more, there are strengths to both. I ran the "9miller" Pi version for a bit and as a retro computer collector and old software junkie, I enjoyed myself, but I played with VMs and then got some baremetal installs of 9front going. 9l