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feat!: Merge tutorials into blog
A good amount of tutorial pages are more akin to blog posts than
tutorials. And even for the ones that are very much a "quick how-to", I
feel many blogs would include them as blog posts.
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[url #creating-the-virtual-machine Creating the virtual machine] -2. [url #installing-plan-9-itself Installing Plan 9 itself] - -Installing [url https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs Plan 9 by Bell Labs] with `[qemu]` itself isn't difficult and there are [url https://9p.io/wiki/plan9/Installing_Plan_9_on_Qemu/ official instructions]. However, when using `[virt-manager]`, there are certain uncertainties that might worry a first-timer and certain issues that arise. - -## Creating the virtual machine - -We'll be installing Plan 9 with a CD (ISO) image. You can download the latest version (compiled every night) from [url https://9p.io/plan9/download.html here]. For a compressed version and checksums, refer to [url https://9p.io/wiki/plan9/Download/index.html this page]. - -:ordered -1. Press the *["Create a new virtual machine"]* and select *["Local install media (ISO image or CDROM)"]* - -2. For the install media select the extracted `[.iso]` CD image of Plan 9 and for operating system chose *["Generic or unknown OS (generic)"]* - -3. For memory select 512 MiB (the default 1024 MiB is also fine) and 1 CPU - - .unordered - - Plan 9 is stupid lightweight and according to [url https://9p.io/wiki/plan9/Installation_instructions/index.html the installation instructions] you need 16-32 MB of memory, but I still prefer to give it a little more, just in case I decide to do something extreme. - - You can also increase these values as much as you like, Plan 9 should be able to handle the more resources - -4. If you plan to only test the OS out, choose *["Create a disk image for the virtual machine"]* and enter 2 GiB of size. If you plan more serious use, you might want to follow [url https://9p.io/wiki/plan9/Installing_Plan_9_on_Qemu/ the qemu instructions] and create a larger disk in the `[.raw]` format. - -5. Finally click finish. - - -## Installing Plan 9 itself - -If everything worked correctly, on boot you should see the screen in step 1. -From here on out, it's dead simple, and I even recommend just going through [url https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNWFTq0ZwLE Hatty Hacker's "Basic Plan 9 Installation" YouTube video]. -I'll show a more abridged version of what you need to do. - -:ordered -1. On the boot screen press 1 and enter - - [image ./img/boot-screen.png] - -2. On the questions "use DMA for ide drive" and "mouseport is" press enter - -3. On "vgasize" press enter, or set up a higher (standard) resolution with 24 colors. Examples: `[1920x1080x24]`, `[1280x720x24]` - - .unordered - - A very incomplete list can be found [url https://9p.io/wiki/plan9/setting_the_right_monitor_size/index.html here] - -4. =[Very important!]= On "monitor" enter `[vesa]`. `[xga]` (or `[vga]`) will work during installation but seem to break when booting the installed OS. - - .unordered - - If you mistakenly leave it at `[xga]`, refer to [url /tutorials/fix-no-frame-buffer-plan9 this tutorial]. - - -From here on out, you press enter at most of the prompts. The following list enumerates all cases where you need to do something else than press enter. - -:ordered -1. On "Disk partiton" question, enter `[sdC0]` (the option that says Hard Disk on it) - - [image ./img/partdisk-partition.png] - -2. On "Install mbr" question, enter `[y]` - - [image ./img/partdisk-mbr.png] - -3. When you get ">>>" before the cursor, press w, then enter, then q and finally enter. This should happen twice, when in `[disk/fdisk]` and `[disk/prep]` - - [image ./img/partdisk-fdisk.png] - - [image ./img/prepdisk-prep.png] - -4. On "Distribution disk" type out the one that ends with `[data]` (and potentially has `[cdrom]` besides it). This is most commonly `[/dev/sdC1/data]` - - [image ./img/mountdist-distribution-disk.png] - -5. When you get "/%" before cursor (during mountdisk task) just enter `[exit]` - - [image ./img/mountdist-browse.png] - -6. On "Enable boot method" enter `[plan9]` - - [image ./img/bootsetup-boot-method.png] - - -After finishing the installation and seeing the message "Feel free to shutdown your computer", Force Off the virtual machine and then power it on again. - -On boot, on the first prompt press enter, and on the second enter `[glenda]`. Enjoy Plan 9! |