From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" Message-ID: <3B0BC6E8.3DE4C25F@null.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <9eegd5$f5i$1@newsserver.rrzn.uni-hannover.de> Subject: [9fans] Re: Small Plan9? Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 14:57:37 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: a62908a6-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Hermann Samso wrote: > My only possibility to input data a my PC is either > through keyboard/mouse :-) or over the floppy drive. > Sadly enough I do not have money enough at this moment > to buy the CD distribution or to buy ZIP an download > it at University. The usual way to install Plan 9 for the first time is to download the installation floppy image, and the compressed archive used by the installation process, to a hard disk (e.g. under Windows) from the Plan 9 distribution Web site. If you can't set aside about 700MB of disk for a Plan 9 partition, you probably won't enjoy the Plan 9 experience anyway. You can play with just the installation floppy, which does run Rio, but there aren't enough tools to make it worthwhile. > Anyways, I just bought a 2nd hand PC, and have been > dreaming of giving Plan9 a try. So the question is, > are there any small distributions (a la uLinux) that > fit in 2 to 10 diskettes? is such a distribution > feasible? Anyone? :) Earlier versions of Plan 9 were available as minimal floppy systems for evaluation purposes, but the system has grown and I doubt that would be feasible now. > BTW. is FAT supported? Yes, at least FAT16 in certain partitions is. I haven't checked to see if recent updates have improved this.