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FQA INDEX | FQA 0 - Introduction To Plan 9
FQA 0 - Introduction To Plan 9
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ACHTUNG! 9front dash1 manual is written by and for 9front users.
Those who can do, those who can’t write and those who can’t write make ezines.
— Sape Mullender
ACHTUNG! Information provided by this document is UNOFFICIAL and may be outdated or just plain WRONG. Use your brain. NO REFUNDS.
_sl’s info is incorrect.
— anth_x
ACHTUNG! 9front is absolutely and unalterably opposed to racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, nationalism, ethnocentrism, religious fundamentalism, and oppressive and coercive power structures of all kinds.
Nobody wants 2 take the weight - The responsibility
— Prince,
Avalanche
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sX4TZoYXF4
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0.1 - What is Plan 9?
0.1.1 - Plan 9 is not UNIX
0.1.1.1 - Plan 9 is not plan9port
0.1.1.2 - Plan 9 is not Inferno
0.1.2 - Plan 9 is not a product
0.1.3 - Plan 9 is not for you
0.2 - Why Plan 9?
0.2.1 - What do people like about Plan 9?
0.2.1.1 - What do you use Plan 9 for?
0.2.2 - What do people hate about Plan 9?
0.2.2.1 - What is not in Plan 9
0.2.3 - Why did Plan 9’s creators give up on Plan 9?
0.2.3.1 - Why did Plan 9’s users give up on Plan 9?
0.2.3.2 - Why did CIA give up on Plan 9?
0.2.4 - What is the deal with Plan 9’s weird license?
0.2.4.1 - Richard Stallman hates the Plan Nine license (circa 2000)
0.2.4.2 - Theo de Raadt hates the Plan 9 license (circa 2003)
0.2.4.3 - Everyone hates the Plan 9 license (circa 2014)
0.2.4.4 - PRAISE FOR 9FRONT’S BOLD ACTION RE: LICENSING
0.3 - Further Reading
0.3.1 - Plan 9 papers
0.3.2 - Man pages
0.3.3 - Web pages
0.3.4 - Books
1.1 - What is 9front?
1.1.1 - Cirno
1.2 - On what systems does 9front run?
1.3 - Why might I want to use 9front?
1.3.0 - Why might I not want to use 9front?
1.3.0.1 - Why did 9front stop making fun of Nazis?
1.3.1 - New Features
1.3.1.1 - New Programs
1.3.1.2 - New Hardware Support
1.4 - Is 9front really free?
1.5 - How can I help support 9front?
1.6 - Who maintains 9front?
1.7 - When is the next release of 9front?
1.8 - What is included with 9front?
1.9 - Can I use 9front as a desktop system?
1.10 - Why is/isn’t ProductX included?
1.11 - Fine, where can I get 9front?
1.11.1 - Mirrors
1.11.1.1 - 9front.iso
1.11.1.2 - Mercurial repository
2.1 - Web Pages
2.2 - Mailing Lists
2.2.1 - Mailing List Archives
2.2.2 - Other useful mailing lists
2.3 - Manual Pages
2.3.2 - How do I write my own manual page?
2.4 - Reporting Bugs
2.4.1 - Your bug report SUCKS
2.4.2 - How do I get more useful info for developers?
2.4.2.1 - Take a photo of the panic screen
2.4.2.2 - Make a stack trace of a crashed process
2.4.2.3 - Make a process snapshot
2.5 2.5 - Sending Fixes
2.5.1 - How do I write good patches?
2.5.2 - How do I send in my patches?
3.1 - Selecting Hardware
3.2 - Known Working Hardware
3.2.0 - Input Devices
3.2.0.1 - Mice
3.2.0.1.1 - IBM/Lenovo
3.2.0.2 - Keyboards
3.2.0.2.1 - IBM/Lenovo
3.2.1 - Audio
3.2.2 - Graphics
3.2.2.1 - AGP
3.2.2.2 - Integrated
3.2.2.3 - PCI Express
3.2.3 - Networking
3.2.3.1 - Ethernet
3.2.3.1.1 - Integrated
3.2.3.1.2 - USB
3.2.3.1.3 - PCMCIA
3.2.3.2 - WiFi
3.2.3.2.1 - Bridge (external)
3.2.3.2.2 - Mini-PCI
3.2.3.2.3 - Mini-PCI Express
3.2.3.2.4 - PCI
3.2.3.2.5 - PCMCIA
3.2.4 - Tablet Digitizers
3.2.4.1 - Serial
3.2.4.1.1 - Integrated
3.2.4.2 - USB
3.2.4.2.1 - Integrated
3.2.4.2.2 - External
3.2.5 - Laptops
3.2.5.1 - Acer
3.2.5.2 - IBM/Lenovo
3.2.5.2.1 - ThinkPad
3.2.5.3 - Toshiba
3.2.5.3.1 - Satellite
3.2.6 - Desktops
3.2.6.1 - eMachines
3.2.6.2 - Igel
3.2.6.3 - Soekris
3.2.6.4 - IBM/Lenovo
3.2.6.4.1 - ThinkCentre
3.3 - Virtual Machines
3.3.1 - Qemu
3.3.1.1 - Installation
3.3.1.2 - Post-Installation Booting
3.3.1.2.1 - Multiboot
3.3.1.4 - Networking
3.3.1.4.1 - Linux VDE
3.3.1.4.2 - OpenBSD TAP
3.3.1.4.3 - Windows TAP
3.3.1.4.4 - Linux TAP
3.3.1.5 - Audio
3.3.1.6 - Graphics
3.3.2 - Virtualbox
3.3.2.1 - Ethernet
3.3.2.2 - Audio
3.3.2.3 - Graphics
3.3.2.4 - Known Working Versions
3.3.3 - Virtio
4.1 - Pre-installation Checklist
4.2 - Creating bootable 9front install media
4.2.1 - ISO image
4.2.2 - USB drive
4.2.2.1 - Creating on Plan 9
4.2.2.2 - Creating on Linux
4.2.2.3 - Bootargs
4.3 - Performing a simple install
4.3.1 - boot
4.3.2 - bootargs
4.3.3 - user
4.3.4 - vgasize, monitor, mouseport
4.3.4.1 - Changing screen resolution
4.3.5 - inst/start
4.3.6 - configfs
4.3.7 - partdisk
4.3.8 - prepdisk
4.3.9 - mountfs
4.3.10 - configdist
4.3.11 - confignet
4.3.11.1 - dhcp
4.3.11.2 - manual
4.3.12 - mountdist
4.3.13 - copydist
4.3.14 - sysname
4.3.15 - tzsetup
4.3.16 - bootsetup
4.3.17 - finish
4.4 - Encrypted Partitions
5.1 - Why should I build my system from source?
5.2 - Building 9front from source
5.2.1 - Update sources
5.2.1.1 - hgrc
5.2.2 - Building from source
5.2.2.1 - Cross compiling
5.3 - Building an ISO
5.4 - Common Problems when Compiling and Building
5.4.1 - Upgrading compilers
6.1 - Before we go any further
6.2 - Network configuration
6.2.1 - Host name
6.2.2 - Identifying and setting up your network interfaces
6.2.2.1 - WiFi
6.2.2.1.1 - Interfaces
6.2.2.1.1.1 - wavelan
6.2.2.1.1.2 - wavelanpci
6.2.2.1.1.3 - iwl
6.2.2.1.1.4 - rt2860
6.2.2.1.1.5 - wpi
6.2.2.1.2 - WPA
6.2.2.1.3 - WiFi Roaming
6.2.2.1.4 - WiFi Debug
6.2.3 - IP address
6.2.4 - Default gateway
6.2.5 - DNS Resolution
6.2.5.1 - Caching DNS server
6.2.5.2 - DNS authoritative name server
6.2.5.2.1 - Troubleshooting DNS authoritative name server
6.2.6 - Network-wide configuration
6.2.7 - Activating the changes
6.2.7.1 - NIC
6.2.7.2 - cs
6.2.7.3 - dns
6.2.8 - Verifying network settings
6.2.8.1 - Checking routes
6.2.8.1.1 - Adding static routes
6.2.9 - Setting up your 9front box as a forwarding gateway
6.2.10 - Setting up aliases on an interface
6.3 - How do I filter and firewall with 9front?
6.4 - Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
6.4.1 - DHCP client
6.4.2 - DHCP server
6.5 - PPP
6.6 - Setting up a network bridge in 9front
6.7 - How do I boot from the network?
6.7.1 - How do I tcp boot?
6.7.1.1 - Passing arguments to ipconfig at the bootargs prompt
6.7.2 - How do I boot using PXE?
7.1 - Plan 9 Services Overview
7.1.1 - What is the kernel?
7.1.2 - What is the file server?
7.1.3 - What is the auth server?
7.1.4 - What is the cpu server?
7.1.5 - What is a terminal?
7.2 - Kernel configuration and maintenance
7.2.1 - How do I mount the 9fat partition?
7.2.2 - How do I modify plan9.ini?
7.2.3 - Kernel configuration file
7.2.4 - Kernel drivers
7.2.5 - How do I install a new kernel?
7.3 - Fileserver configuration and maintenance
7.3.1 - Adding users
7.3.2 - Configuring nvram
7.3.3 - Setting up a listener for network connections
7.3.4 - Mounting a file system from userspace
7.4 - Auth server configuration and maintenance
7.4.1 - Configuring an auth server
7.4.1.1 - Avoiding an ndb entry for the auth server
7.4.2 - Adding users
7.4.3 - secstored
7.4.3.1 - Adding users to secstore
7.4.3.2 - Converting from p9sk1 to dp9ik
7.5 - Cpu server configuration and maintenance
7.5.1 - Configuring a cpu server
7.6 - Terminal configuration and maintenance
7.6.1 - Configuring a terminal
7.6.2 - Configuring a Terminal to Accept cpu Connections
7.6.3 - UTC Timesync
7.7 - Mail server configuration and maintenance
7.7.1 - smtpd.conf
7.7.2 - rewrite
7.7.3 - names.local
7.7.4 - remotemail
7.7.5 - SMTP over TLS
7.7.6 - IMAP4 over TLS
7.7.7 - Spam Filtering
7.7.7.1 - ratfs
7.7.7.2 - scanmail
7.7.8 - Troubleshooting the mail server
7.8 - Web server configuration and maintenance
7.8.1 - ip/httpd
7.8.2 - rc-httpd
7.9 - TLS certificates
8.1 - rc
8.1.1 - Prompts
8.1.2 - /env
8.2 - rio
8.2.1 - The Pop-up Menu
8.2.2 - Window control
8.2.3 - Text in rio windows
8.2.4 - Scrolling
8.2.5 - Mouse Chording
8.2.6 - Keyboard Shortcuts
8.2.7 - Color scheme
8.2.8 - Why is rio like this?
8.2.9 - tips
8.2.9.1 - Taking a screenshot
8.2.9.2 - Prevent console messages from overwriting the screen
8.3 - Text Editors
8.3.1 - sam
8.3.1.1 - Scrolling
8.3.1.2 - Mouse Chording
8.3.1.3 - Why does sam have a separate snarf buffer from rio?
8.3.1.4 - Keyboard Shortcuts
8.3.2 - acme
8.4 - Internet
8.4.1 - Mail
8.4.1.1 - upasfs
8.4.1.1.1 - Reading gmail via IMAP
8.4.1.1.2 - Sending mail with gmail
8.4.1.2 - nedmail
8.4.1.3 - nupas
8.4.2 - NNTP
8.4.3 - IRC
8.4.3.1 - ircrc
8.4.3.2 - irc7
8.4.3.3 - ircs
8.4.3.4 - wircrc
8.4.4 - FTP
8.4.5 - HTTP
8.4.5.1 - mothra
8.4.5.2 - abaco
8.4.5.3 - hget
8.4.5.4 - charon
8.4.5.5 - i
8.4.6 - SSH
8.4.6.1 - ssh
8.4.6.1.1 - sshfs
8.4.6.1.2 - sshnet
8.4.6.2 - ssh2
8.4.6.3 - scpu
8.4.6.3.1 - Public Key Authentication
8.4.6.4 - OpenSSH
8.4.6.5 - sftpfs
8.4.6.5.1 - Mounting a remote u9fs share over SSH
8.4.7 - secstore
8 8.4.8 - drawterm
8.4.8.1 - Connect to Plan 9 from a mobile device
8.4.8.2 - drawterm behind firewalls
8.4.9 - Peer to Peer (P2P)
8.4.9.1 - Tinc
8.4.9.2 - Torrents
8.4.9.2.1 - ip/torrent
8.4.9.2.2 - torrent
8.5 - Audio
8.6 - External Media
8.6.1 - Mount an ISO9660 CD-ROM
8.6.2 - Burn a CD-ROM
8.6.3 - Mount a FAT formatted USB device
8.7 - Emulation
8.7.1 - Linux Emulation
8.7.2 - Nintendo
8.7.3 - Sega
8.7.4 8.7.4 - Commodore
8.7.5 - PC
8.7.5.1 - Virtualization Using vmx(1)
8.7.5.1.1 Block Devices
8.7.5.1.2 Ethernet
8.7.5.1.3 OpenBSD
8.7.5.1.4 Linux
8.7.5.1.5 Windows NT
8.8 - Additional Software
8.8.1 - 9front sources server
8.8.2 - 9front contrib
8.8.3 - Other public 9p servers
8.8.4 - Advanced Namespace Tools for Plan 9
8.8.5 - Even More Additional Software
8.9 - Bootstrapping architectures not included on the ISO
8.9.1 - amd64
8.9.2 - Raspberry Pi
8.9.3 - arm64
8.10 - ACPI
8.10.1 - Enabling ACPI
8.12 - Revision Control
8.12.1 - cvs
8.12.2 - git
8.12.3 - Mercurial
8.12.4 - svn
8.13 - Video
8.13.1 - treason
9.1 - First
9.2 - Booting
9.2.2 - Break into a shell
9.2.3 - Editing plan9.ini
9.2.4 - Boot media not recognized
9.2.5 - I moved my hard drive between ports
9.3 - Graphics
9.3.1 - Rio fails to start
9.3.2 - VESA BIOS does not contain a valid mode
9.4 - Networking
9.4.1 - Networking is not working
9.4.2 - Cannot resolve domain names
9.4.3 - /mnt/web/clone does not exist
9.4.4 - PCMCIA WiFi stopped working after reboot
9.5 - USB
9.5.1 - Devices not recognized or not working
9.5.2 - System freezes after showing memory sizes
9.6 - auth
9.99999999999999999999999999999999999999 - GIVE UP
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