Thank you, that's good to know. What instructions would you suggest I start with for setting up a full cpu + auth + fossil server or mounting the pi file system remotely with 9fs from Windows or Mac OS X?

I'm not particularly interested in overclocking, but was curious how Plan 9 might respond if I were to play around with it a little.

If you'll indulge two more quick questions, I would very much appreciate it. (1) Is there any support for the Edimax EW-7811Un USB-WiFi adaptor -- or any other USB-WiFi adaptor? Or would an ethernet to WiFi adaptor be the only option? And (2), is it advisable or necessary to update the 9pi distribution's firmware files from https://github.com/raspberrypi/firmware/ at any time or from time to time? 

Once I figure out how to customize the startup to run my own acme.dump (I think some of the earlier answers will help me fix that) and anything else related to getting things set up that might be useful to other new users, I plan on posting easy instructions at http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/plan9/.

Thanks, 𝔹

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From: Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Setting 9pi Start State / Drawterm to 9pi

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> So if I were to want to connect to my 9pi at home from my office, would I
> have to make the 9pi into a cpu server?

If you just want to use drawterm to connect, the reply you quoted shows a
simple way.  If you want to use more plan 9 capabilities, like mounting the
pi file system remotely with 9fs, or connecting with a different user name,
setting up a full cpu + auth + fossil server gives you that (and gives you
a chance to understand plan 9 more thoroughly).

> Also, I was wondering if Plan 9 uses the Raspberry Pi's GPU. In other
> words, should I allocate the smallest amount of memory to the GPU (I think
> 16 is the minimum) rather than the default of 64? And in that case, I would
> also assume that overclocking the GPU wouldn't be of any benefit.

The 9pi.img already sets gpu ram size to the minimum.  Plan 9 doesn't use
the gpu's accelerated graphics api, but the gpu is still doing some low-level
functions behind the scenes.

I wouldn't advise overclocking anything.  If you care that much about speed,
why use a raspberry pi?