[9fans] network PC boot

[Digby Tarvin digbyt@acm.org]

Hello all,

I am still working on booting plan9 using a Unix based file server (u9fs).
After my modification to u9fs, my CD is now sucessfully installed.

>From a PC, I can boot 9pc using the 'e!0' argument to b.com, and
thence obtain a boot message that includes 'tcp' as one of the
file service options.

When I try to boot to this server, I get a complaint about not
finding the authentication server and the boot aborts. As I have
not configured an authentication server yet, I accepted the dafault
0.0.0.0 at the appropriate prompt during booting.

Is there some was to boot off a non local file server in the non-
authenticated mode?

If I do need an authentication server, how does this work with a
u9fs based server? The instructions in the install notes for
setting up a pc as cpu and authentication server include instructions
for setting up users and passwords at the file server console, and it is
not obvious what the corresponding action would be for u9fs..
It is also mentioned that the authentication server PC needs a local
disk, so it presumably can't be the cpu/terminal server that I wanted
to boot to the u9fs file system.
Thanks,
DigbyT
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Digby R. S. Tarvin                                              digbyt@acm.org
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