From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 30 11:56:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0755037B423 for ; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:56:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e7UIu8f27164; Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:56:08 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:56:08 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Paul Jansen Cc: jerry@kcis.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskless-x/index.html Message-ID: <20000830115607.S18862@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000830162753.28654.qmail@web5101.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <20000830162753.28654.qmail@web5101.mail.yahoo.com>; from vlaero@yahoo.com.au on Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 02:27:53AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Paul Jansen [000830 09:28] wrote: > Jerry (also cc'd to questions@freebsd.org), > > I'm quite interested in getting FreeBSD set up to > allow hosting of Diskless FreeBSD based X-terminals. > I've installed FreeBSD 4.1 a couple of times and am > slowly finding my way around it. I wonder if you've > got time for a few questions? > > FreeBSD supports something called PXEboot. I think > this is something the Netcard has to implicitly > support and I don't have an cards that will do it. Is > PXEboot any use to me? Probably not, the card's or motherboard's BIOS must support it. > Is there a more up to date (and in-depth) description > of how to build diskless Xterminals with FreeBSD > anywhere? Are you planning on updating your page at > any stage? I think there's a bunch of stuff in /usr/share/examples/diskless. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message