Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 19:23:19 -0600 (CST) From: John Kenagy <jktheowl@bga.com> To: Ben Pepa <bpepa@msn.bc.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Diskless X Terminals Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.980107190819.386A-100000@barnowl.roost.net> In-Reply-To: <l03110700b0d79d3a9c27@[192.168.1.2]>
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I thought about it, but a $40 200MB drive from my dealer that I put in an old 386SX was too easy to turn down. The setup was easy. Install FreeBSD over the LAN, configure just enough OS and X to start things, set up NFS (and NIS for the more energetic) and presto! Now, the 386 is... leisurely. But given the particular application, it's OK. Your 486 machines should do fine. The bios is not of concern, FBSD only needs it to find the disk then it takes over. The Bios in the 386 only sees 40MB. Good Luck! John On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Ben Pepa wrote: > Hi; > > Does anyone use diskless X-Terminals? We have about 10 486/33Mhz that have > no hard drive but a single floppy. Their BIOS can't handle the newer 1.2GB > disks, so we were planning on converting them to X-Terminals (we can't find > 500MB hard drives anymore). Does anyone have a 486/33Mhz running X? Is > it very slow? They will all have at least 16MB RAM and some will have 32MB > RAM. We can't do much else with them, and don't want to get the wiring > layed out if it's going to be slow.... > > > Thanks, > Ben Pepa > > > >
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