Re: [9fans] yet another installation guide

2009-08-13 Thread Corey
On Tuesday 11 August 2009 17:40:59 John Floren wrote: On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Coreyco...@bitworthy.net wrote: snip Thanks for the heads-up, John - I've included a timeout value on the plan9.ini menu in the next draft version of the howto. You're welcome, but I do think we'd all

Re: [9fans] yet another installation guide

2009-08-11 Thread Corey
Thank you Erik for your review - very much appreciated! I have integrated your suggestions (plus some further general enhancements and optimizations) into another draft version that I will upload shortly. May I solicit just one more bit of feedback from you? In the 'Conventions' section, I

Re: [9fans] yet another installation guide

2009-08-11 Thread Corey
On Monday 10 August 2009 22:37:38 John Floren wrote: On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:34 PM, erik quanstromquans...@quanstro.net wrote: step 17. it's a good idea to always leave a 9fat menu around on your auth server. if you screw a kernel up, you'll really be proud of your self for it! -

Re: [9fans] yet another installation guide

2009-08-11 Thread John Floren
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:32 PM, Coreyco...@bitworthy.net wrote: On Monday 10 August 2009 22:37:38 John Floren wrote: On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:34 PM, erik quanstromquans...@quanstro.net wrote: step 17. it's a good idea to always leave a 9fat menu around on your auth server. if you screw

Re: [9fans] yet another installation guide

2009-08-11 Thread erik quanstrom
authdomain - The authentication domain name used for the auth services your server will be supplying. it's not a domain name. often people make the authentication domain the same as their dns domain, since we now live in an ip world. but it's just a text token. no heirarchy. no partial

Re: [9fans] yet another installation guide

2009-08-11 Thread Bruce Ellis
Cinap and Brucee's guide ... Arrive back home to find a fried Auth server. Curse. A standard here, due to HST, is four (and only four) F*cks, in quick succesion, getting louder and higher in pitch. Drag the bastard into the workshop and completely butcher it and a standby clunker and rebuild it.

Re: [9fans] yet another installation guide

2009-08-11 Thread Charles Forsyth
Soldering iron (nice old temperature controlled Weller) breaks down (never heard of)! that's amazing.

Re: [9fans] yet another installation guide

2009-08-11 Thread Bruce Ellis
there are photos ... don't know where. it was lucky that it was warmish winter night. built a nice fire and slept for a few hours around it in t-shirt, shorts, sandals. we did have my travel lapdog but it was obvious that coffee was in order ... and no work in a national park! brucee On Wed,

Re: [9fans] yet another installation guide

2009-08-10 Thread erik quanstrom
On Tue Aug 11 01:02:13 EDT 2009, co...@bitworthy.net wrote: I finished the first draft of a cpu/auth server installation/configuration howto: http://www.p9dp.org/plan9-cpu-auth-server-howto.html It would be great if whoever's interested, and has a bit of time could check it out, try