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Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:53:52 +0100
From: dante <subscriptions@posteo.eu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Raspberry Pi with an Ethernet cable (unfortunately there's no wireless
yet AFAIK).
Both the Plan9 and the 9Front file systems have their issues, though, so
back up periodically:

- Plan9: don't enable periodic snapshots in Fossil to avoid it getting
corrupt
- 9Front: comes with the experimental hjfs by default, which got corrupt
sooner or later on my setup

Both distributions come as a small (2GB) runnable image.
There is no installer yet, so it is hard to change the file system.

What I did:

Boot Richard Miller's Plan9 SD card (2GB image) on a Raspberry Pi.
Used an USB-to-SD adapter and the clone script from an earlier post of
mine to install the system on a *larger* SD card.
Boot the large SD card, happy.

The said images are terminal servers.
If you manage to convert the terminal server into a CPU server (easy,
see Wiki), you'll be able to connect from Unix using drawterm.

Cheers,
Dante

On 18.11.2014 14:29, mayuresh@devio.us wrote:
> i have been trying to get plan9 running on my latest and greatest
> hp-aio.
> failed, even while trying out 9front.
> would there be some way to determine an ideal configuration for a
> machine
> to used solely for plan9 experimentation?
> also, based on what ever i have read, plan9 seems most at home with a
> set
> of machines in some kind of client-server mode. if this is true, may i
> know an ideal setup?
> thanks.