From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Tue, 2 Aug 1994 19:12:13 -0400 From: Steve Kotsopoulos steve@ecf.toronto.edu Subject: short survey of Plan 9 sites Topicbox-Message-UUID: 02f1683c-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Message-ID: <19940802231213.FQ_SUGv-DDAiUahPp5iuGld5LFBySeOiUv2LKeSXpmA@z> I've started working on a Plan 9 installation guide that will try to cover common difficulties and give some useful tips. To make sure it is useful for a broad audience, could the Plan 9 sites on this list please fill out the following short survey and return it to me. I'll summarize the replies I get. Hardware. Plan 9 terminals: Plan 9 cpu servers: Plan 9 file servers: Unix u9fs file servers: Other details: (eg. disk space, worm disk, etc.) Number of active users: Installation difficulties: Installation tips: For example, here are my own answers: Hardware. Plan 9 terminals: 1 MIPS Magnum 3000, with colour monitor Plan 9 cpu servers: 1 MIPS Magnum 3000 Plan 9 file servers: 0 (tried to use Magnum, but got disk errors) Unix u9fs file servers: 1 SGI Indy Other details: 400Meg disk Number of active users: 1 (me) now, 10-20 anticipated Installation difficulties: mostly due to Unix-based fileserver quirks Installation tips: use tcpd to protect access to u9fs daemon