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To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] booting term kernel over the net
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 08:59:33 -0500
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If you're talking about booting from kfs (rather
than a real fs, in which case IL will cause problems),
it's not hard.  You can't fetch the kernel over the
wide-area network, but that's the only problem.
If you have the kernel on a floppy and put the
auth and fs info into plan9.ini, that's enough to
get going.  I've done this for booting terminals
from a standalone kfs/auth across campus and
it worked reasonably well.

Russ