From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <814a9ee9-3cf7-453f-b6cb-0d3b10601100@email.android.com> <753998c8-7595-4f6a-bb94-e45c95dd9b42@email.android.com> In-Reply-To: <753998c8-7595-4f6a-bb94-e45c95dd9b42@email.android.com> From: "James A. Robinson" Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2016 19:22:57 +0000 Message-ID: To: Stanley Lieber , Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=001a114c819ee6a58c05415be29f Subject: Re: [9fans] Maintenance of an auth server files vs a dns+dhcp+tftp server Topicbox-Message-UUID: ab0c751e-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 --001a114c819ee6a58c05415be29f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Ah, ok. I'll try that. Thank you! On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 11:05 AM Stanley Lieber wrote: > "James A. Robinson" 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 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 > > --001a114c819ee6a58c05415be29f Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Ah, ok.=C2=A0 I'll try that.=C2=A0 Thank you!

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On Tue, Nov 15,= 2016 at 11:05 AM Stanley Lieber <sl@9f= ront.org> wrote:
"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> w= rote:
>
>> 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=C2=A0 the same authi= d/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 t= cp (actually, tls) mount the root file system from the file server.

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