From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3e1162e60705091635q7251bd45of350128f933badb4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 16:35:15 -0700 From: "David Leimbach" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Problems setting up a cpu/auth/file server In-Reply-To: <46422CB9.4010305@verizon.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <46422CB9.4010305@verizon.net> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6133b71a-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 5/9/07, Claudio Leite wrote: > Kim Shrier wrote: > > I am having a few problems getting this going. I have a PC that I > > have just installed Plan 9 on using a CD image I downloaded on May > > 5th. Since I want to connect to it from my Mac using drawterm, I > > assume that I need to boot the Plan 9 box as a cpu/auth/file server. > > > > Following the instructions on > > http://plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Configuring_a_Standalone_CPU_Server/index.html > > > > is not working too well for me. > > > > I've had the most luck with this document: > > http://www.magma.com.ni/moin/Plan9Tutorial > > In fact, I had no luck with the wiki instructions, and only got a > successful setup after reading this. Since then, I've had no troubles. > Hmm, I've not had too many problems with the wiki. I do find that I need to reference the wiki + the manual, but sometimes that's good, as I think a howto that does "too much" hand holding can be bad.