[9fans] DIskless boot off a kfs machine?

[9fans] DIskless boot off a kfs machine?

[steve.simon]

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distname=plan9
partition=new
ether0=type=i82557
monitor=multisync135
vgasize=1024x768x8
mouseport=0 -d C

bootfile=fd0!dos!9pcdisk.gz
fs=128.163.161.15
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Hi,

Iam trying to get a PC to diskless boot from a single KFS plan9 system.

I start the listeners on the Plan9 system (IL and TCP)

I would prefer to load my kernel accross the wire from the kfs system
but I cannot see how to do this from the info in 9load(8) or plan9.ini(8),
so I just boot a 9pcdisk from floppy.

Both systems use DHCP to get IP addresses.

I set fs= to the IP address of the kfs machine in plan9.ini.

However what do I set the auth server address to be,
and how should I authenticate?

Anyone help?

BTW our DHCP server doesn't talk to our DNS server so I have to
do everything by IP addresses (sigh)


 

-Steve

Re: [9fans] DIskless boot off a kfs machine?

[Russ Cox]

You need to run an auth server.  Set auth= to the IP address
of the auth server.

Alternately, if you are the same user on the kfs and an the
remote machine you can just run

	echo 'key proto=p9sk1 user=steve.simon dom=steve.dom !password=secret' >/mnt/factotum/ctl

Make sure it's the first key.

And then use that same user and password on the terminal.

Russ