Installation Standalone

Build harvey installation image

• export TARGETDIR=/tmp
• go get harvey-os.org/cmd/centre
• centre -i "" -ninep-dir=$TARGETDIR
• cd build
• bash build.bash
• cd $TARGETDIR
• bunzip2 plan9-new.iso.bz2

At this point we have plan9-new.iso in the $TARGETDIR specified to ufs; you might want to use some other location than /tmp. Do not use a location in the harvey tree as most of it is copied in subsequent builds. Now we want to create an empty disk image, and install harvey on it.

Install harvey on qemu image

Before installing harvey on the image, ensure no large untracked files in repo (other than plan9-new.iso). Other large files, not part of the repo might cause the image creation step to run out of memory.

• qemu-img create -f qcow2 harvey.qcow2 2G
• qemu-system-x86_64 --enable-kvm -serial stdio -net user -net nic,model=virtio -m 4096 -cdrom plan9-new.iso -drive id=disk,file=harvey.qcow2 -boot d

Now we have manual steps to install. At each prompt, enter the following for a simple standalone installation:

• 1
• yes (use DMA)
• ps2
• 1280x1024x32
• vesa

Now we have harvey running rio (an actual GUI!). As before, enter the following at each prompt (most are defaults):

• configfs
• fossil
• partdisk
• sdC0
• y
• w
• q
• prepdisk
• /dev/sdC0/plan9
• w
• q
• fmtfossil
• /dev/sdC0/fossil
• mountfs
• /dev/sdC0/fossil
• configdist
• local
• mountdist
• /dev/sdD0/data
• browse
• exit
• copydist
• bootsetup
• plan9
• y
• finish

Now quit qemu. Time to boot into your fresh installation of Harvey.

• qemu-system-x86_64 --enable-kvm -serial stdio -net user,id=user.0,hostfwd=tcp::5555-:1522,hostfwd=tcp::9999-:9,hostfwd=tcp::17010-:17010,hostfwd=tcp::1666-:1666,hostfwd=tcp::5356-:5356,hostfwd=tcp::17013-:17013 -net nic,model=virtio -m 1024 -drive id=disk,file=harvey.qcow2 -boot d

Boot the 9pcf kernel. At the prompt, enter:

• 2

You're now in Harvey!

Additional setup steps

Enable DMA by adding the following to lib/profile:

• echo dma on > /dev/sdC0/ctl

Connect drawterm to standalone harvey

Set up factotum and cpu server

(From https://9p.io/wiki/plan9/Drawterm_to_your_terminal/index.html)

• ip/ipconfig
• auth/factotum
• echo 'key proto=p9sk1 dom=livecd user=glenda !password=password' >/mnt/factotum/ctl
• aux/listen1 -t tcp!*!17010 /bin/cpu -R &

Connect drawterm

(Assumes drawterm built: /~https://github.com/9fans/drawterm)

• drawterm -a localhost -c localhost -u glenda