Re: [9fans] have installed plan 9 on many hosts, can't get any of them to "share".

[John Floren <slawmaster@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net> wrote:
>> I'm not really asking people to write better howtos.  I think
>> the idea is fundamentally broken.  What we really need is some
>> less narrative and more expository.
>
> I agree completely with this, my opinion is we need somthing that explains the
> concepts of what has to be done and why, and provides pointers to where to get
> the detailed information.
>
> I find once I understand what somthing is trying to do and why, debugging the
> details is easy.
>
> For what its worth the biggest problem I ever had setting up a plan9 network
> was failing to ensure bootes password was the same in the nvram as in keyfs.
>
> -Steve
>

My problem was always forgetting to uncomment the keyfs line in cpurc.
I'd be able to log in as bootes but nothing else.

I've done it often enough that I might be able to write a decent
document about setting up a standalone server and some terminals with
explanations of what needs to be done, followed by actual commands to
do it... I think the existing standalone CPU howto document actually
does a pretty good job with that, it's just a little hasty/haphazard
sometimes.

John