On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Kyle Laracey <kalara...@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 >> <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote: >> >> But as Federico mentioned, you might not want pcdisk--that's for >> >> running with a kfs root, which isn't officially supported any >> more. If >> >> you were looking at the 3e guide, that might explain it. These days, >> >> for a terminal, you probably want pcf (pc + fossil). >> > >> > for a terminal, ideally one would be booting off a file server, >> > and have no local storage. >> > >> > but local storage can't be avoided, >> > as i see it, on a standalone terminal, simple, speedy, safe >> > would trump fs features. so kfs can't just be excluded. >> > >> > your tradeoffs may vary. :-) >> > >> > - erik >> > >> >> There's certainly reasons for using kfs, but for a new user I'd >> probably recommend fossil simply because the documentation and most >> 9fans will assume you're using fossil. >> >> But yeah, *best* option is to netboot a 9pc kernel, it's lovely to >> just hit the power button when you'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
