Re: [9fans] Plan9 topology

["Federico G. Benavento" <benavento@gmail.com>]

yes, I dual booted Plan 9 and windows for years, it worked great,
just boot the cdroom and follow the instructions, choose the empty
space or partition from the installer, etc. you'll end up with a standalone
terminal, no need for a cpu server in the beginning, later you could
just rebuild the kernel and turn it into a cpu server.

if the other OS is linux and uses grub, it'll need an entry for Plan 9
similar to the windows entries, (chainload or something)

if it's windows, it's a bit more hacking booting Plan 9 from vista's loader
but totally doable

ah, and make sure your nic is supported.

On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Duke Normandin <dukeofperl@ml1.net> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Duke Normandin <dukeofperl@ml1.net> wrote:
>> > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, Skip Tavakkolian wrote:
>> >
>> >> if the intent is to get a full understanding of what an operational
>> >> Plan 9 environment is like, using VMware or Qemu to create VM's for
>> >> various roles (auth/cpu, fs, term) connected by a virtual network is
>> >> an excellent option. I've successfully used this setup for
>> >> experimenting/testing and for demos.
>> >
>> > Sounds like _a lot_ of fooling around! I've set up numerous *nix LANs
>> > before, but don't have one at the moment. How much memory would a
>> > machine need to set up all those VMs?
>
>> depending on the host os, 1g is sufficient. i've never needed to use
>> more than 256M for plan9 vm's.
>
> The box that I'd be using has a total of 1G RAM. If I do this, it
> would be on top of Xubuntu 10.10. But the VM thing doesn't really
> appeal to me.
>
> I could run a headless box as a Plan9 auth/cpu, fs server. Then, if I
> want to this Plan9 server, is there a minimum Plan9 install that I
> could put on the spare partition that I have? Kinda like what I had
> for a long time: a 486DX running FreeBSD as a mailserver; another
> running as a webserver; another couple running primary and slave
> nameservers; and one dual-homed FreeBSD box routing and doing
> firewall/natd. Had a couple of Linux and FreeBSD workstations hung on
> this LAN. Those 486DX _never_ hiccuped! (Thank you UPS!!!)
>
> The above sounds like a job for Plan9 :) But my point is - is that I
> don't need to set up a LAN to enjoy Linux or FreeBSD. Can I use Plan9
> standalone in a dedicated partition?
> --
> Duke
>
>



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Federico G. Benavento