Re: [9fans] Can't "mk CONF=9pcdisk" --> gives error

[John Floren <john@jfloren.net>]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Kyle Laracey <kalaracey@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, July 19, 2012 1:48:06 PM UTC-4, John Floren wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 10:21 AM, erik quanstrom &lt;quanstro@quanstro.net&gt; wrote:
>> &gt;&gt; But as Federico mentioned, you might not want pcdisk--that&#39;s for
>> &gt;&gt; running with a kfs root, which isn&#39;t officially supported any more. If
>> &gt;&gt; you were looking at the 3e guide, that might explain it. These days,
>> &gt;&gt; for a terminal, you probably want pcf (pc + fossil).
>> &gt;
>> &gt; for a terminal, ideally one would be booting off a file server,
>> &gt; and have no local storage.
>> &gt;
>> &gt; but local storage can&#39;t be avoided,
>> &gt; as i see it, on a standalone terminal, simple, speedy, safe
>> &gt; would trump fs features.  so kfs can&#39;t just be excluded.
>> &gt;
>> &gt; your tradeoffs may vary.  :-)
>> &gt;
>> &gt; - erik
>> &gt;
>>
>> There&#39;s certainly reasons for using kfs, but for a new user I&#39;d
>> probably recommend fossil simply because the documentation and most
>> 9fans will assume you&#39;re using fossil.
>>
>> But yeah, *best* option is to netboot a 9pc kernel, it&#39;s lovely to
>> just hit the power button when you&#39;re done working.
>>
>>
>> John
>
> Wow so do you guys actually netbook Plan9? Where's the central
> server? where you work / university or something? Or do you just
> have it set up at your homes? Sounds pretty cool...
>

Here at work, we've got a cpu/auth/file server running fossil and
venti off a Coraid storage appliance, sitting in the machine room. We
netboot some terminals and a 32-core test server from it.

At home, I've got a cpu/auth/file server running on an old Thinkpad,
but I generally just drawterm in since 1. it's a hassle to plug
yourself into the wired network and 2. I rarely have a netbootable
terminal at home.

Netbooting is great, though. You can also cheat and install Plan 9 on
the disk, but then specify that root is from a remote server, meaning
your kernel will boot from the hard drive but after bootup it's
basically idle.


John