At Thu, 13 Jan 2011 14:37:52 -0700 (MST), Duke Normandin wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, John Floren wrote: > > > I think you mentioned in another message that you have a headless box > > available; I recommend temporarily hooking that up to a monitor, > > keyboard, and mouse, then installing a standalone cpu/auth/file server > > on it. Once you're done, you can try using drawterm from Windows or > > Linux or whatever you have to test the configuration. > > I just checked - it's a 166Mhz P-I with 98M RAM and 4.5G HDD. Made a > good dedicated mail server. May not have enough gonads for a Plan 9 > server though.
That should do well enough for a basic Plan 9 cpu/auth/file server, although you may wish to forgo Venti given the small RAM and drive. > > > If the configuration is good, you can go ahead and install Plan 9 as > > a terminal on your spare partition, or just keep working from > > drawterm, which is what I usually do (the graphics performance is > > better). > > So I can install Plan 9 as a client/terminal from the CD! But I > wouldn't waste a 30G BSD partition on that. Which is where I was going > to put Plan 9. I might just wipe the 4G Native Oberon partition, and > put the Plan 9 terminal there. Although this box that I use > multi-boots, why bother installing Plan 9 as a terminal on a dedicated > partition, when I can connect from Linux using `drawterm' or `9vx'. > > Thanks for the input! > -- > Duke > I've never bothered to install Plan 9 as a boot option on my desktops; I prefer to leave them booted into Linux and connect via drawterm, so as not to disturb my open applications. On my old laptop, I kept a Plan 9 terminal install because that was actually quite convenient, and I could boot using the server's root from most anywhere. John
