"James A. Robinson" <jim.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:

>So in a canonical installation the auth server mounts its root from the
>file server?
>
>On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 10:47 AM Stanley Lieber <sl@9front.org> wrote:
>
>> The idea is that there is one file system shared by all the
>neighboring
>> systems. The canonical Plan 9 installation comprises one disk file
>server
>> and many diskless computing machines (auth servers, cpu servers,
>terminals).
>>

Yes. You can arrange for hands-free booting by storing  the same authid/authdom/password in the nvram of both the file server and the auth server. I usually boot the auth server from a 9fat partition or a USB key, then tcp (actually, tls) mount the root file system from the file server.

sl