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From: Darrell <darrell@car...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Still more newbie blather
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 22:00:27 -0700 (MST)

In article <394BB632.213208CB@yah...> you wrote:
>

> 
> Greetings, 9fans!
> 
> Here's some more rambling about what I'm doing with plan 9.  Feel free
> to respond as you see fit. All suggestions welcome.
> 
> I just got some more old hardware, this time a 100mhz dx4 486. It's
> quite a bit better than the dx2 66 I was using. Unfortunately I don't
> have a working system assembled at the moment.
> 
> Some stuff that came with it: a pertec 120mb "floppy" tape drive; and a
> 600+mb micropolis scsi II drive. The scsi host adapter is a DTC 3280as.
> Is there any possibility that this junk is supported? I'm thinking slow
> storage behind a file server; active storage<-scsi disk<-pertec tape.
> Not exactly high performance stuff, but it's right here under my hands.
> 
> I'm starting to get serious enough about this to think in terms of
> better hardware; what direction should I be taking in terms of
> fileserver storage? Obviously I'm not about to install a big CD jukebox
> to backend the fileserver ;^)
> 
> Thanks for listening to me ruminate-
>
I am a newbie myself,  and could not get plan 9 booting on my 486. I have it on disk and when I try to floppy boot it, it shows "PBS... Plan 9 by Bell Labs", 
and then it reboot. it repeats the cycle, 
Do you have any advice to what I might do to get Plan 9 running?

darrell