* [9fans] G3 Plan 9 installation.
@ 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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From: Vester Thacker @ 2004-09-22 11:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
Hi Everyone,
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.
--Vester "Vic" Thacker
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* Re: [9fans] G3 Plan 9 installation.
2004-09-22 11:33 [9fans] G3 Plan 9 installation Vester Thacker
@ 2004-09-22 19:10 ` Joseph Holsten
2004-09-24 8:55 ` Enrique Soriano
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From: Joseph Holsten @ 2004-09-22 19:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Vester Thacker, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
I can't offer advice, but second that request. Anyone with experience
setting up plan 9 on mac hardware, please let us know. Although just
wingin' it without a plan sounds like so much fun...
------------ Nosce Te Ipsum ------------
Joseph A. P. Holsten pantosys@gmail.com
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* Re: [9fans] G3 Plan 9 installation.
2004-09-22 11:33 [9fans] G3 Plan 9 installation Vester Thacker
2004-09-22 19:10 ` Joseph Holsten
@ 2004-09-24 8:55 ` Enrique Soriano
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From: Enrique Soriano @ 2004-09-24 8:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
> 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.
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* Re: [9fans] G3 Plan 9 installation.
@ 2004-09-27 4:49 Ben Huntsman
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From: Ben Huntsman @ 2004-09-27 4:49 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs
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.
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