From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <705e3da2d020df1c0ff56af20dfda85b@hamnavoe.com> References: <400e8e6e0b93b38d19e3a582f290be65@ladd.quanstro.net> <705e3da2d020df1c0ff56af20dfda85b@hamnavoe.com> Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2014 11:35:32 +0100 Message-ID: From: Mats Olsson To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Persistent font in Acme. Topicbox-Message-UUID: 25845704-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hi Richard! Talking about digital archaeology I tried to install Plan 9 from a cd on my Dell 500H (something). That laptop came with an attachable floppy drive, cd rom and a cdrw but it was as I remembered the drives are all dead but the machine is loaded with Watt OS 5. A linux distro that has a pretty small footprint as regards to memory. Originally it had a whooping 128 MB of RAM and I installed another 128 MB RAM module so it has now 256 MB of ram. It would be nice to install Plan 9 on it but the only way into the machine now it ethernet. Would that be possible? (I guess so but I haven't found any docs on it) So, then how? If you have any ideas I would be delighted to hear since it's a shame that a so wellbuilt laptop should just be lying there unused. Yours Truly, Mats 2014-11-08 10:42 GMT+01:00, Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>: >> curious choise. not that you'd want to use this anymore, but ... >> ... >> flop=3D/dev/fd0disk > > Actually a couple of weeks ago I had occasion to use not only /rc/bin/a: > but /rc/bin/b: to do a bit of digital archaeology (current plan 9 kernel > still supports the 5=C2=BC" floppy drive on my old pentium pro machine). > > >