Documentation
-as of Sat Feb 23 21:34:08 EST 2013-
- FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions.
- Recommended Readings
- Papers and other publications.
- Books
- Supported PC hardware, other hardware, virtual machines
- Online Manual pages - man pages mirror
INSTALLATION
- Installation instructions
- Installation troubleshooting
- Setting the right monitor size
- Setting the right keyboard map
- Adding a new user
- Network configuration
- Using AoE (ATA-over-Ethernet)
- Staying up to date
INSTALLATION IN SPECIAL ENVIRONMENTS
- Installing Plan 9 on Qemu - Plan 9 works reliably in Qemu
- vmware4 - Plan 9 under vmware4.
- Installing in Xen
- Installing in Parallels Desktop on Mac OS X
- Installing Plan 9 in a VirtualBox
- Guruplug
- Installation on Ipaq (Supported PDAs)
- Other hardware
USING THE SYSTEM
- Using rio - An introduction to using the window system.
- Using acme - Acme is a hybrid editor and shell/windowing application.
- Using plumbing - The plumber sends messages to the appropriate program.
- 9p services using srv, listen, exportfs, import - How Plan 9 systems communicate.
- Fonts - for the screen and otherwise.
- Using troff - Formatting text for printing on a typesetter.
- Using vncv - Remote use of applications on other OSes.
- Using SSL - How to store keys and certificates.
- Using aescbc to store factotum keys - secstore(1) for stand-alone terminals.
- Connecting to other OSes - ssh, telnet, u9fs, SMB, NFS...
- Connecting from other OSes - drawterm, v9fs, 9vx...
- X11 installation - Functional but not recommended.
- Linux emulation - Rudimentary support for running Linux programs on Plan 9.
- UNIX to Plan 9 command translation.
- Tip o' the day
CONFIGURATION
- Configuring a standalone CPU server - The next step after installation.
- Compiling kernels
- Dns configuration notes
- Mail configuration
- Adding your face
- Printer configuration
- SSH configuration
- TeX configuration
- Informal Wiki Setup
- Setting up Fossil - How to manually setup fossil
- Setting up Venti - How to manually setup venti
- Mirroring with Fossil and Venti
- Expanding your Grid - An overview of adding more systems
ADDITIONAL TOPICS
- Drawterm to your terminal
- Console messages
- Using PQ - The implicit relational database client and server.
- Configuring file-backed Venti stores
- Venti-Rescue - How to rebuild your system when your disks crash.
- Kfs file system configuration - Of historical interest; kfs is now deprecated.
- Installing a Plan 9 File Server - Instructions for installing the old dedicated file server; in most cases it is recommended that you use fossil instead.
- Mouse vs. keyboard
- Dialup modem config
- Installing Plan B on Qemu
