Re: [9fans] Setup the fileserver

[Stephen Wynne <stevemw@mindspring.com>]

> Are there manuals out there for setup an fileserver? 

Guten Tag, Herr Teege.

Reading from "Starting up the file server" at
ftp://ftp.dbsystems.com/pub/plan9/install.html helped me
see the order of commands documented elsewhere.

I recommend reading Ken's "The Plan 9 File Server" paper
at http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/fs/fs.html -- more
than once. 

That refers you to the fsconfig(8) manual page at
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/8/fsconfig
and the more general fs(8) manual page at
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html/8/fs

It helps to remember that there is nothing (as far as I know) on the
file server once you've booted. You need to mount a filesystem from it
to populate its /adm/users file, for example. You can create files and
directories from the fileserver's console.

You may want to use a serial console while you work: Set up plan9.ini
with these entries and connect to another system:

  console=0                             <== COMA on my plan9pc server.
  baud=38400

Both video/keyboard and serial input/output work now.

Once you've got something up, on a Plan 9 terminal do:

term% srv il!serverhostname		<== connect
term% mkdir /n/.partitionname		<== a place to mount the service.
term% mkdir /n/partitionname		<== a place to bind it.
term% bind -c /n/.partitionname /n/partitionname
term% cd /n/partitionname

Cat out /bin/9fs for examples.

Viel Gluck!