Re: [9fans] auth server question?

[Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>]

In article <Pine.BSF.4.33.0108210904540.65851-100000@lucifer.ducksworth.com> you write:
>are most of you running your auth servers stand alone(kfs)
>or are you booting them from floppy and getting system files
>via a file server?

I run my cpu/auth server off of my file server, booting both off
of a floppy.  In those devices where I can, I use 9fat partitions
on IDE devices (sometimes disc, sometimes a flash device) instead
of floppies, but those devices are relatively few.  That's
somewhat unfortunate, since floppies boot so slowly and have a
tendency to die over time (I suppose all things do, but floppies
have a particularly short lifespan).

If I had my banks, I'd make the file server and CPU server boot
off of flash devices and everything else boot over the network.
Unfortunately, I am poor.  :-)

	- Dan C.