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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@pla...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] :Plan9 networked installation
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 13:11:04 -0400

The installation procedure creates a terminal.
To bring a system up as a standalone cpu server,
you can just change the kernel it boots
(type 9fat:, copy /386/9pccpudisk to /n/9fat,
and then edit /n/9fat/plan9.ini to name 9pccpudisk).

Bringing up a file server is a bit more work
and currently must be done by hand.  You'd
have to bring it up with a boot floppy and
then initialize the file system via the network
and the file server "allow" command.
Read update(8) and wrap(8) for info on 
making a boot disk and then extracting the
plan9.9gz onto the file server.  The command
used in the install is
	wrap/inst -ovr /n/kfs plan9.9gz
You'd of course want to name your file server
rather than /n/kfs.

Russ