On 05/06/2011 08:18, Josh Marshall wrote:
I'm chugging through the resources, reading, and documentation. This
system acts differently from anything I've previously used, so I'm at a
loss at...everything. I visited the IRC channel and am working through
the .pdf and the main site. Is there anything else I should be looking
into? Also, the .pdf said that I should have a working plan9 install
available to practice, so I tried using vmplayer but the kernel panics.
I'm learning, but not well acquainted with kernel programming,
debugging, or anything else. Also, if this all seems kind of
incoherent, I'm sorry, its past 2am and I've been working on absorbing
info for over 4 hours.
Hi,
I recently installed Plan 9 (the real one from the Bell Labs) on qemu (hosted by a 32bits
Debian). Since kvm and qemu share the same user interface (yes I'm talking about command
line), I use kvm to get the benefice of my intel cpu that is "vmx-aware" (aka VT-x).
If you are already familiar with partitioning disks, it should be relatively easy for you
to install Plan 9. It is quite simple, even with "fossil+venti" option. The installer
will propose you a partition map that you can accept at first.
Nicolas
Ps: in my installation, I wanted to use two qemu hard drive images: one for Plan 9/fossil
and another one for venti (the later contains a first partition for the arenas, it uses
95% of the disk, and the second partition uses 5% of the disk and is used for the venti
index).
