On Thu, 13 Jan 2011, John Floren wrote: > 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.
What is Venti again? [snip] > 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. The more I think about it, and the more I understand what Plan9 is, the more I'm convinced that hanging a dedicated Plan9 box off my router, and connecting to it from anywhere inside the subnet, is the way to go. > 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. You must have had a dedicated server box as well, then? -- Duke
