Plan 9 from Bell Labs

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Other Sites

9grid.es: Plan 9 site

Plan 9 dokumentation

Documents

Newbie guide by Michael Covington (15 pages, 2008).

Book about Plan9 in German on Lulu.com (237 pages, 2006).

Introductory OS-Course by Francisco J. Ballesteros on Lulu.com (385 pages, 2009). There is also a draft (2007) available.

Installation

The installation on a QEMU Virtual Machine on GNU/Linux (Debian) is quite straight forward.

I adapt here the instructions found for Fedora at this blog post (German). See Installing Plan 9 on Qemu on the Plan 9 wiki, too.

1. Download ISO CD-ROM Image

wget http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/download/plan9.iso.bz2
bunzip2 plan9.iso.bz2

2. Install QEMU-KVM Virtual Machine

apt-get install kvm

Create a 1 GB blank disk for the virtual machine.

dd if=/dev/zero of=plan9.dsk bs=1024 count=1048576

3. Install

kvm -cdrom plan9.iso plan9.dsk -m 512

Follow the installation instructions.

4. Run

kvm plan9.dsk -m 512 &

Log in as "glenda".