Re: [9fans] AUTH, FS, etc.

[Lucio De Re <lucio@proxima.alt.za>]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2000 at 12:35:03PM +0000, forsyth@vitanuova.com wrote:
> 
> >> the prompt times out in 15 seconds and accepts the default.
> > 
> >I don't believe you, but I'll try anyway.  But before I do, let me argue
> 
> i was referring to the third edition.
> 
I did my faithful bit and got the result I expected :-)  Now I have
to decide whether to toss the 2ed CPU server, update its boot procedure
so I can select (via TFTP) one of 2ed or 3ed CPU kernels (that would
mean making sure either kernel inherits the essential plan9.ini entries)
or stick to 2ed and manual startup for a while longer.

> > 	bootargs=il!144.32.112.69 -g 144.32.112.75 ether /net/ether0 144.32.112.70 255.255.254.0
> 
> i've also just realised that i changed something to make that work.
> you might find that the file server address isn't set by the il!...

That's awful neat, although it smacks of taking most of the functionality
out of the loader and placing it in plan9.ini - nothing wrong with that
in my book.  In fact, I really wish one could draw a neat border between
loader and kernel and stop all the duplication that keeps occurring, with
novel approaches ever other day, on each operating system and often
every other release, too.

My dream is a pull down menu of OSes to choose from, with emulations
for all the others (Windows excluded :-) built in.  The OS to end all
OSes?  :-)  Or just a boot shell?  :-)  :-)  :-)

++L