From: Darrell <darrell@carbon.flatlan.net>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Still more newbie blather
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 22:00:27 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200007020500.WAA22046@carbon.flatlan.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <394BB632.213208CB@yahoo.com>
In article <394BB632.213208CB@yahoo.com> you wrote:
>
>
> Greetings, 9fans!
>
> Here's some more rambling about what I'm doing with plan 9. Feel free
> to respond as you see fit. All suggestions welcome.
>
> I just got some more old hardware, this time a 100mhz dx4 486. It's
> quite a bit better than the dx2 66 I was using. Unfortunately I don't
> have a working system assembled at the moment.
>
> Some stuff that came with it: a pertec 120mb "floppy" tape drive; and a
> 600+mb micropolis scsi II drive. The scsi host adapter is a DTC 3280as.
> Is there any possibility that this junk is supported? I'm thinking slow
> storage behind a file server; active storage<-scsi disk<-pertec tape.
> Not exactly high performance stuff, but it's right here under my hands.
>
> I'm starting to get serious enough about this to think in terms of
> better hardware; what direction should I be taking in terms of
> fileserver storage? Obviously I'm not about to install a big CD jukebox
> to backend the fileserver ;^)
>
> Thanks for listening to me ruminate-
>
I am a newbie myself, and could not get plan 9 booting on my 486. I have it on disk and when I try to floppy boot it, it shows "PBS... Plan 9 by Bell Labs",
and then it reboot. it repeats the cycle,
Do you have any advice to what I might do to get Plan 9 running?
darrell
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-07-02 5:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-06-17 17:32 James G. Stallings II
2000-06-19 8:42 ` Milton
2000-07-02 5:00 ` Darrell [this message]
2000-07-03 9:37 ` Douglas A. Gwyn
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