From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 27 02:58:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id CAA15038 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 02:58:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id CAA15033 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 02:58:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nadav@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.5/8.6.12) id LAA14944; Sat, 27 Sep 1997 11:57:22 +0200 (IST) Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 11:57:22 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron To: Lee Johnston cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Diskless Booting In-Reply-To: <342BF403.41C67EA6@cyberworld.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Lee Johnston wrote: > Hi, > > I'm getting an old Digital VT1000 diskless terminal. Is it possiable to > use the VT1000 as a FreeBSD disless node? If so how??? > > Thanks The VT1000 is some kind of a VAX (if I remember correctly, I only used the VT1300, that is the color version). If you have something to boot the VT1000 off of (i.e. the EWS kit and some machine that can serve it via MOP, which is I think the only way the VT1000 can boot), then you can use it as an X Terminal with anything you want. If you don't have the EWS kit, you're a bit out of luck. If it has a SCSI controller (look inside the box, I don't think it has an external connector any how), you may be able to hook up a disk to it and maybe boot NetBSD or something on it (probably with some hacking). Otherwise, the only way to boot it is MOP, and I don't know a MOP implementation for FreeBSD (which is, of course, no indication that there is none available). > > _________ > Lee Johnston > ljohnston@cyberworld.demon.co.uk > http://www.cyberworld.demon.co.uk > --------------------------------- > Pauca sed matura. (Few but excellent.) > -- Gauss > Nadav