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From: steve@pla... steve@pla...
Subject: (none)
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 1996 13:04:38 -0500

mjm@wru.org (Michael Masterson) wrote:
> speaking for myself, I haven't seen the faq.  or is that the document
> that's mostly a copy of other stuff from the att pages, that is more
> of a 'where'd it come from' as opposed to a 'how do I make it work'
> file?

I'm not sure which document you were looking at, but I don't think it
was my plan9faq.html. My faq is based on the bell-labs faq.html,
but has grown quite a bit in the last year. Neither faq is intended
to be a replacement for the installation guide and manuals, though.

cpu% ls -l plan9faq.html
--rw-r--r-- M 893 steve sys 37196 Mar 12 12:22 plan9faq.html
cpu% aftp plan9.bell-labs.com
cpu% ls -l /n/ftp/plan9/faq.html
--r--r--r-- M 899 none none 11569 Oct 25 15:59 /n/ftp/plan9/faq.html

> I'm trying to get the test distribution up and running, but finding a
> compatable video card is .... while not killing me, surely leaving big
> gaping wounds... 

read http://www.ecf.toronto.edu/plan9/plan9faq.html#vga
and all the references it points you at