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Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:36:21 +0000
From: Luke Evans <luke.evans@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Canonical way to configure permanent remote
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Thanks for the pointers Richard.  Let me also take the opportunity to thank=
 you for your efforts on getting Plan 9 onto the Pi. =20

I had come across that linked doc, but wasn't sure that was what I was look=
ing for.  I'll do a more thorough reading.

One of the challenges I'm finding with my early foray into Plan 9 is that t=
here's quite a lot of reference material, a fair number of summaries and ov=
erviews (especially the various papers), a number of introductory videos, b=
ut it's difficult to navigate everything as a neophyte from an orientation =
and set-up task point of view.  The approach I'm taking is to 'swim about' =
in the materials, gradually learning the nomenclature and purposes of vario=
us bits and pieces, in the hope that the overall map of things will gradual=
ly piece itself together in my head.

Fantastic that you've already provided a 'cpu' kernel setup.  I saw this ve=
ry early on when browsing the image, but had absolutely no idea what purpos=
e it served.  It had looked like the basic system had everything it needed =
for this compared to my early reading of online docs, but I guess it is a s=
ufficiently different thing.

Now that my interest is kindled, I had considered installing Plan 9 on my o=
ld G5 Mac, but it looks like the Mac/PowerPC version was never completed...=
 unless somebody knows different.


On Monday, December 10, 2012 3:23:18 AM UTC-8, Richard Miller wrote:
> The canonical way to make your Plan 9 machine accessible to multiple user=
s
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> is to make it into a cpu server.
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> The Plan 9 wiki has instructions for doing this:
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> See hget http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Configuring_a_Standalo=
ne_CPU_Server/index.html
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> On the raspberry pi, you'll find an already-built cpu kernel in 9picpu
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> on the boot partition, and a cmdline-cpu.txt file with essential boot
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> parameters.
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> The wiki has lots of other useful information.  For the full Plan 9
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> experience, you can access the wiki directly instead of via the
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> web interface.  In acme, open the file /acme/wiki/guide, and use
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> the middle mouse button to execute first 'Local 9fs wiki' and
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> then 'Wiki /mnt/wiki'.