From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 10:19:43 +0000 From: Poly-poly man Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Subject: [9fans] A few installation questions... Topicbox-Message-UUID: def09b82-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Hiya! I've used linux for almost my entire life, and absolutely love it. But when I found out about plan 9 the other day, I loved some of the features built into it (not to mention Glenda ;) ) Anyway, I've been playing a little bit with the livecd (I haven't had many chances to play with it because my Gentoo partition on this computer is emerging... and whenever I can let it compile...). I do, however, want to install on my hard drive. I have a bunch of questions, though. 1. I want to keep Gentoo on here. I already have an extra partition (that I had _something_ on, but I can wipe it). It looks like: hda1: 100mb, gentoo's /boot, has grub info, ext2 hda2: 1gb, linux swap hda3: 123gb, gentoo's /, ext3 hda4: 30gb, can be deleted (put plan9 here ;) ) Firstly, from what I've seen in the docs, there'll be no problem using that and not touching anything else, right? If you wipe my Gentoo, I wipe your face! The more important problem is booting. I have grub installed in the mbr (from my gentoo installation), and would really like to keep grub. Assuming I install plan 9 in hda4 (or whatever you call it ;) ), what steps would I have to take to get it to be able to boot plan9? 2. I live in America, where the government was stupid enough to change what day Daylight Savings Time changes fall on. Unfortunately, release 4 was released back in 2002 - before the new law came into play. What will I have to do to fix the daylight savings time rules? This is a particular problem, because I am planning on installing within the week (and this week is the week that should have been an hour back already, but is not yet under the new laws... stupid country ;) ). Thanks in advance, poly-p man