From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:43:02 -0500 From: "Eric Van Hensbergen" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] grid setup procedure In-Reply-To: <7d3530220608210713uf00b0f0udb7326f65f5dc809@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7d3530220608201049u308d4cd5i975e2542726a2aeb@mail.gmail.com> <7d3530220608210713uf00b0f0udb7326f65f5dc809@mail.gmail.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: a4eb7e44-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On 8/21/06, John Floren 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