[A] plan9 & linux

[Jean Mehat jm@pasteur.fr]

Here is a summary of what I learned, installing the pcdist plan9 on my
machine this week end.

It is absolutely necessary to have a dos system to boot plan9 after the
disk1 installation. Simple schemes to have lilo load the plan9\b.com, /boot
or boot sector of the plan9 partition won't work.

On the disk, plan9 uses the space at the end of the disk unclaimed in the
partition table ; it doesn't clobber linux partitions. Have a spare partition
at the end of the disk, delete it via fdisk, install plan9's 4 disks (it goes
in the deleted partition), re-create the partition if you want.

Configuring vga for my tseng et4000 card was much easier than configuring
Xfree. I just had to change a version number in vgadb.

My mouse uses the MouseSystem protocol (msc for gpm); but plan9 (vga?) didn't
recognize the mouse type. Another mouse, using the same protocol works fine
though.

It is possible to exchange file between plan9 and linux by the dos partition,
that is accessed in plan9 as /n/c:

BE CAREFUL. As far as I know, these informations are exact, but I am no
Linux guru and a real plan9 newbie.

--
Jean Mehat, universite de Paris 8 Vincennes a Saint Denis,
jm@univ-paris8.fr, (1) 49 40 64 03, (1) 49 40 67 83 (fax)