> I just lately installed Plan 9, but the stock system is built for > 32-bit x86, and I have an amd64 computer.
the stock system will work find for you. > I found this diff: http://9legacy.org/9legacy/patch/nix.diff > which seems to have all needed system libraries, and its own kernel, > but the kernel seems to lack basic functionality, such as graphics and > mouse, and I can't find the local bootloader for it — the stock unfortunately, it can't be run easily on a terminal yet due to the lack of graphics, as you note. /n/sources/contrib/quanstro/root/sys/src/boot/pc-e820 will boot amd64 and pc kernels. the source is at http://code.google.com/p/nix-os (hopefully correctly typed) and /n/sources.lsub.org/nix the official bootloader is at /n/sources.lsub.org/nix/sys/src/nix/w/pxeload > I feel a bit lost. In the documentation, the authours emphasize its > portability, yet to actually build for another architecture seems > quite a bother, regrettably, since I was quite enthusiastic to use it > as my primary system. the fact that the amd64 port is immature doesn't mean that the system isn't portable. it may mean that x86 is a complicated place to work. :-) - erik
