From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e60608210910y1a602901ub22335c118c44a42@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 09:10:13 -0700 From: "David Leimbach" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: Re: [9fans] grid setup procedure In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7d3530220608201049u308d4cd5i975e2542726a2aeb@mail.gmail.com> <7d3530220608210713uf00b0f0udb7326f65f5dc809@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: a4f5725a-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 8/21/06, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > On 8/21/06, John Floren 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