From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 30 7:12:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from piranha.eds.ch (piranha.eds.ch [194.235.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B4EAE14EB8 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 07:12:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from roberto.nunnari@agie.ch) Received: from helium.eds.ch by piranha.eds.ch (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA26618; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 16:03:35 +0200 Received: from agie.ch ([198.132.159.194]) by helium.eds.ch (Netscape Messaging Server 3.5) with ESMTP id AAA73DF for ; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 16:15:00 -0100 Message-ID: <37CA9131.5E174FB9@agie.ch> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 16:12:01 +0200 From: "nunnari" Organization: AGIE X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions Subject: pc as a x-terminal Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I have to 486 PCs on a small ethernet and soon I'll add a AMD K6-2. The two 486 have nice enough video cards and enough memory (8-20 Mb) to run X but not enough HD space (40-170 Mb) to fully install FreeBSD and XFree86. My goal is to have three machines that run X application on top of FreeBSD OS. I wonder whether it sounds sensible to set up things so that the K6-2 will be a server and the two 486 a kind of x-terminal. That way I would need I small bootstrap image on the 486 PCs that (using bootp/dhcp/rarp and tftp) retrives all the configuration parameters and the system image from the server. Does something similar is already included in FreeBSD? Then using NFS I could mount the filesystem. NFS should do the job as well without the bootstrap image... That way I only should install FreeBSD locally on the 486, NFSmount the X filesystem, and then run startx over NFS??? What sounds more sensible? Any hints/advice will be greatly appreciated. Please, also answer to my mail-box. Best regards. -- Roberto Nunnari -software engineer- mailto:roberto.nunnari@agie.ch AGIE - http://www.agie.com Via dei pioppi 16 tel: +41-91-8069138 6616 Losone """ Switzerland (o o) =======================oOO==(_)==OOo======================== MY OPNIONS ARE NOT NECESSARELY THOSE OF MY EMPLOYER To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message