From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
Message-Id: <200108211622.MAA02289@augusta.math.psu.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] auth server question?
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0108210904540.65851-100000@lucifer.ducksworth.com>
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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 12:22:43 -0400
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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.