Hardware Reference
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Table 11-2. Plan 9 jargon
Jargon Term
Meaning
Chord
Press more than one mouse button at the same time
Put
Save something to the filesystem
Snarf
Copy text to the clipboard
Sweep
Move the mouse across the screen while holding down a button
Zerox
Duplicate a window and its contents
Now that you have a brief idea what Plan 9 is and why it's good, it's time to install Plan 9.
Installing Plan 9
You're going to need to download the Plan 9 image for Raspberry Pi first. Do note that this image is not supported by
the foundation or by Bell Labs. Download the image from here:
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sources/contrib/miller/9pi.img.gz .
Once you have this downloaded on your host machine, you need to extract the image and write it to the SD card.
You won't need to compile Plan 9 as it's a premade ready-to-go image. All you need to do is write the image to your SD
with the following command on a Unix-like system:
# dd if=9pi.img of=/dev/sdX
Replace sdX with the name of your actual SD card device. This should not take too long. When that is done take a
look at the contents of the SD card; in Figure 11-17 you can see my SD card contents.
 
 
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