Re: Re: [9fans] grid setup procedure

["David Leimbach" <leimy2k@gmail.com>]

On 8/21/06, Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/21/06, John Floren <slawmaster@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > If I wanted to make a setup similar to 9grid.de, for instance, or any
> > other site that has machines dedicated to file serving or auth or cpu,
> > do I install a file server after doing my standalone server, then have
> > the standalone boot from the file server?
>
> Probably the best bet is to setup your standalone system to boot other
> systems, then boot a separate cpu/auth server and any terminals you
> like.  You can then configure your original standalone as purely a
> file server.  When I had my 9grid running, I had a file server and a
> cpu  server and configured them to point to sources as auth (so anyone
> with a sources account could log into my cpu server).  Instead of
> booting a separate terminal, I just used drawterm to the cpu server.
>
> > I suppose the thing to do is
> > email some of the people who have done this.
>
> That's not a bad idea - of course, they should all be on this list.
>
>    -eric
>

I personally just run a cpu/fs/auth machine and have a parallels
terminal/fs as well.  I typically use parallels these days though, as
drawterm's "yellow problem"  is quite irritating.

Anyone have a solution to that?

Dave