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4Site configuration for a stand alone Lisp Machine*
This is a simple site configuration for a stand alone Lisp Machine
talking to a file server. It can also be used as a basis to creating
your own personal site, e.g. if you plan on having your Lisp Machine
on the Global Chaosnet.
- LOCAL-BRIDGE at Chaos address 0177040.
- LOCAL-HOST at Chaos address 0177041.
4Making a new site*
See also "Updating Site Information" in the Lisp
Machine manual.
site.lisp:
- Change it, if desired.
hosts.text
- Change it, if desired.
lmlocs.lisp:
- Change it, if desired.
- The associated-machine should correspond to what is set in usim
configuration.
sys.translations:
- Change :PHYSICAL-HOST.
- Change SITE LISP to point to new site directory, or alternatively
this checkout.
- Change SYS TRANSLATIONS; point to the system source directory.
This is only used when setting up a site from "scratch" using a System
distribution load. The values below are suitable for `usite`, change
them accordinly if you are creating your own site.
(si:set-sys-host "local-bridge" :unix #o177001)
(login 'lispm 'local-bridge)
(load "bridge://usite//site.lisp")
(load "bridge://usite//sys.translations")
(fs:define-sys-logical-device)
(setq si:host-alist nil)
(make-system 'site :compile)
Now save your changes by picking a empty partition on the disk (LOD2
is generally used for the System distribution load band).
(print-disk-label) ;Pick a empty partition.
(disk-save 3) ;Reboots machine into new world.
(set-current-band 3) ;Make it default.
4Accessing a new host*
Decide on which subnet to use. Decide on name and Chaosnet addresses
for your Lisp Machine(s), your host and any other machines.
Communicate this to BV if you intend to go onto the Global Chaosnet!
Create a directory for your site, e.g. your-site under l/.
Create (use extra.hosts as a template) your-site/hosts.text
accordingly:
NET CHAOS, 1
HOST YOUR-BRIDGE, CHAOS 1,SERVER,UNIX,VAX
HOST YOUR-CADR, CHAOS 2,USER,LISPM,LISPM
Modify usim.ini accordingly (chaos.hosts, chaos.myname,
chaos.servername):
[chaos]
hosts = ../your-site/hosts.text
myname = YOUR-CADR
servername = YOUR-BRIDGE
With the above you can now access the host file system from usim:
(si:set-sys-host "your-bridge" :unix #1)
(login 'lispm 'your-bridge)
To access the host file system. At this point, you can use ZMacs to
create/edit all the files needed to make a new site. The minimum are:
- your-site/hosts.text
- your-site/site.lisp
- your-site/lmlocs.lisp
- your-site/sys.translations
See the files in usite/ or amssite/ for inspiration.
4Setting up a local file system*
You can also use a local file system, to set this up you first need to
be able to talk to your host (see above). If you've renamed your
host, adjust as needed.
First load LOCAL-FILE, and create a directory for all your site files:
(make-system 'local-file")
(create-directory "lm:<site>")
Next, you need to copy all your site files from your host to your Lisp
Machine:
(copy-file "bridge://usite//extra.hosts" "lm:<site>")
(copy-file "bridge://usite//hosts.text" "lm:<site>")
(copy-file "bridge://usite//hsttbl.lisp" "lm:<site>")
(copy-file "bridge://usite//lmlocs.lisp" "lm:<site>")
(copy-file "bridge://usite//site.lisp" "lm:<site>")
(copy-file "bridge://usite//sys.translations" "lm:<site>")
Now you need to edit at least the following files:
- lm:<site>site.lisp
- lm:<site>sys.translations
This should look something like the following so to make sure
that files get accessed from the local file system:
(FS:SET-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-HOST "SYS"
:TRANSLATIONS '(("SITE;" "lm:<site>")
("*;*;*;" "lm:<sys.*.*.*>")
("*;*;" "lm:<sys.*.*>")
("*;" "lm:<sys.*>")))
- lm:<site>lmlocs.lisp
This is optional, you can make your Lisp Machine self
associate, meaning that it will try to locate things first
from it self.
Edit lmlocs.lisp so that the _last_ value in refers to it
self, e.g.,
("Local-CADR" "Local-CADR" "Anyplace" (ANYPLACE 0) "Local-CADR")
Now you can more or less follow the previous steps of loading
site.lisp and sys.translations and recompiling the site system:
(load "lm:<site>site.lisp")
(load "lm:<site>sys.translations")
(fs:define-sys-logical-device)
(setq si:host-alist nil)
(make-system 'site :compile)
At this point you _can_ do DISK-SAVE; but it will dump a dirty site
(just meaning lots of extra stuff in the load band). To make your
world load cleaner, do (si:%halt) and start usim again. Then re-do a
small subset of the above:
(make-system 'local-file")
(load "lm:<site>site.lisp")
(load "lm:<site>sys.translations")
(fs:define-sys-logical-device)
(setq si:host-alist nil)
(make-system 'site :compile)
And DISK-SAVE, check that things work, and SET-CURRENT-BAND if you are
happy.
Now you can create your own home directory and lispm.init if you want,
and when you login it will load it.
(create-directory "lm:<ams>")
(ed "lm:<ams>lispm.init")
(login 'ams)