From: Ben Huntsman <BHuntsman@mail2.cu-portland.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] G3 Plan 9 installation.
Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 21:49:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040926T214926Z_FFB700000000@mail2.cu-portland.edu> (raw)
It's my understanding that the PPC port was designed for Bell Labs custom systems that just happened to use the PPC CPU. I doubt you could get it to run on the mac unless you wrote drivers for apple-specific hardware...
For starters, though, Command-Option-O-F at startup will drop your new-world (current mac PPC systems) macintosh into Open Firmware. From there you can specify a different boot file from the standard OS X... You can also poke around at your PCI devices
Good luck!
-Ben
>>> Enrique Soriano<esoriano@lsub.org> 9/24/2004 1:55:04 AM >>>
> I'd like to install Plan 9 on a G3 233 MHz iMac. Any pointers on how
> to do this? Or any pitfalls that I should be aware of beforehand. Btw,
> I'd be happy to just have it as a CPU server. Thanks in advance.
I'm using Plan9 on VirtualPC 6.0 (x86 virtual machine for PPC)
in a Powerbook G4, and it is terribly slow.
VirtualPC 7.0 has been released, but I haven't used it yet.
I have never tried to use the Plan 9 PPC port, I don't know if
this port works in up-to-date macs.
Regards,
Q.
next reply other threads:[~2004-09-27 4:49 UTC|newest]
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2004-09-27 4:49 Ben Huntsman [this message]
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2004-09-22 11:33 Vester Thacker
2004-09-22 19:10 ` Joseph Holsten
2004-09-24 8:55 ` Enrique Soriano
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