Re: [9fans] grid setup procedure

["Eric Van Hensbergen" <ericvh@gmail.com>]

On 8/21/06, John Floren <slawmaster@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> If I wanted to make a setup similar to 9grid.de, for instance, or any
> other site that has machines dedicated to file serving or auth or cpu,
> do I install a file server after doing my standalone server, then have
> the standalone boot from the file server?

Probably the best bet is to setup your standalone system to boot other
systems, then boot a separate cpu/auth server and any terminals you
like.  You can then configure your original standalone as purely a
file server.  When I had my 9grid running, I had a file server and a
cpu  server and configured them to point to sources as auth (so anyone
with a sources account could log into my cpu server).  Instead of
booting a separate terminal, I just used drawterm to the cpu server.

> I suppose the thing to do is
> email some of the people who have done this.

That's not a bad idea - of course, they should all be on this list.

   -eric