From owner-freebsd-isp Thu Aug 17 20:37:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from aurora.sol.net (aurora.sol.net [206.55.65.76]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BE9A37B43E for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 20:37:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by aurora.sol.net (8.9.3/8.9.2/SNNS-1.02) id WAA56062; Thu, 17 Aug 2000 22:37:16 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <200008180337.WAA56062@aurora.sol.net> Subject: Re: OT: x-terminals To: ajpuyat@globe.com.ph Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 22:37:15 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <200008180332.WAA11040@earth.execpc.com> from "jgreco@execpc.com" at Aug 17, 2000 10:32:13 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I have a project coming up. Can anybody point me in the right direction. It > has to deal with a freebsd client-server set-up. we have one server P3, > 256mb, 9.1 scsi hdd. And connected to this server are 20 or more PC units > without hard drives. Our principal wants to utilize the hdd-less computers > by booting from a bootrom or floppy, getting the graphics information from > the server. how do you set-up this kind of configuraion? what software > should use (other than the OS). Is there a picobsd that can be made into a > graphics terminal? Since, apparently, PicoBSD was partly inspired by the diskless X-Terminal stuff I did years ago, probably yes. There's documentation in the handbook (not mine). There's documentation in the mailing list archives (mine). In a real basic sense, you NFS mount the server and run X in xdm broadcast mode. Then you have the server run xdm to offer login service. The details are... details. I've even got it doing DHCP, although that made the relatively clean system quite a bit uglier, since dhclient has all sorts of codified inane expectations about the system. -- ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message