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From: Ish Rattan <ishwar@pali.cps.cmich.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] File/cpu servers..?
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 11:22:22 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200006151522.LAA09382@pali.cps.cmich.edu> (raw)

Hello,

In context of installing a file and cpu server more
details will be helpful. After terminal install, I do
not see a /386/9pccpudisk. Do I have to nmake one from
sources /sys/src/9/pc? Also, how does one make a file
server boot disk?

- ishwar

>
>The installation procedure creates a terminal.
>To bring a system up as a standalone cpu server,
>you can just change the kernel it boots
>(type 9fat:, copy /386/9pccpudisk to /n/9fat,
>and then edit /n/9fat/plan9.ini to name 9pccpudisk).
>
>Bringing up a file server is a bit more work
>and currently must be done by hand.  You'd
>have to bring it up with a boot floppy and
>then initialize the file system via the network
>and the file server "allow" command.
>Read update(8) and wrap(8) for info on
>making a boot disk and then extracting the
>plan9.9gz onto the file server.  The command
>used in the install is
>	wrap/inst -ovr /n/kfs plan9.9gz
>You'd of course want to name your file server
>rather than /n/kfs.
>
>Russ


             reply	other threads:[~2000-06-15 15:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-06-15 15:22 Ish Rattan [this message]
2000-06-15 15:49 ` Stephen Wynne
2000-06-15 16:18 Russ Cox
2000-06-16  9:14 ` Ish Rattan

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