From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Wed,  1 Nov 1995 03:35:13 -0500
From: Kenji Okamoto okamoto@earth.cias.osakafu-u.ac.jp
Subject: user ID of adm
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> > Hi, everyone.
> > 
> > I've gotten, at last :-), a working Plan 9 system in my room, which consists
> > of only 3 PCs, AMD DX4/120 for CPU(AUTH) server, two 486DX/33s for file
> > server and a terminal.  My system is standalone, though. 

> I would be nice if you can write a tutorial or summarize you experiences
> for `Auth', file and terminal servers (including the exact hardware that
> you are using. I think that it will be beneficial for quite a few
> people.

Most of my trouble came from my lack of knowledge of Plan 9.  Then, I've
read and read manuals and relevant sources, particularly 'build.c' under
/sys/lib/pcdist/src helped me much.

One point I can say is that you should have efective c:/plan9/lib/ndb/local 
file under the DOS partition.   In my case, I wrote three entries of lines
begining with 'ip=', which someone described here previously, for all 
the three machines.   This will fake 9dos. :-)

I'm using SOYO's 486 motherboard(SY-27B) + 3COM 3C509B + AMD DX4/120SV8B
(write-back internal cache type) for CPU(AUTH) server with 16MB RAM.
(unfortunately, DOS 6.2J does not boot up, but Plan 9 can. ^_^)  This is
a diskless machine.  This is the only one machine with 72 pin SIMM, aka
new one.

An old 486 motherboard(about 4 years ago) + AHA1542B + Quantum Fireball
1080S + 486DX/33MHz + 16MB RAM for my file server.  No problems without
a trivial one, that is it's not so fast.  :-) An older Prodesigner II is 
its VGA card.

An old 486 motherboard(also about 3.5 years ago) + SMC 8013EP + AHA1542B
+ old 200MB Maxtor LXT-200S + Machspeed VGA 1600(et4000/W32) and 8MB RAM
for terminal.

All the SVGA cards I have do not work over 640x480x1.  ;_;

Kenji