Re: [9fans] RPI faq in words of one syllable?

[Rui Carmo <rui.carmo@gmail.com>]

Before anyone chimes in to say “just read the docs”, I did that back in early 2016 as a complete newbie to Plan9 and spent a _long_ while hunting down stuff - not on the hardware and purchasing side (I have too many Pis and Arduinos for that to even register), but on the OS and config side. 

Flashing the image and getting it to boot once is trivial, even by hobbyist standards.

Configuring it to do something meaningful (like, for instance, logging in to a remote system, keeping backups or getting it on Wi-Fi, which I haven’t tried yet) took me a week, because i had to get into Plan9 first. Sadly, I didn’t keep my notes (they were on a 9p filesystem that I no longer know how to set up in Linux).

I’m inclined to say that getting the hardware and stuff is trivial, but that the rest definitely needs to be grouped together in a guide.

R.

> On 11 Jan 2018, at 10:27, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> Is there a document somewhere that describes how to bring up an RPI
> with Plan 9, that assumes the reader knows absolutely nothing?
> E.g., where to buy it, what case and power supply to buy, what accessories
> if any. Where to download the image and what kind of SD card to put
> it on.  How to boot Plan 9 and set it up as a standalone system. Etc.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Arnold
>