Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 13:08:01 -0500 From: Telecom Tom <tom.scott@veda-home.com> To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Small X? Message-ID: <38E39801.99B5CFA4@veda-home.com>
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Maybe you could work with the NIC vendor at disklessworkstations.com to do a BSD version of the LTSP? -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Small X? Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 08:31:00 -0800 From: "Tim Dysinger" <tim@wrchq.com> Reply-To: "Tim Dysinger" <tim.dysinger@csgpro.com> To: "Chris Shenton" <cshenton@uucom.com> CC: <freebsd-small@freebsd.org> References: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10003281539490.21998-100000@numbat.cs.rmit.edu.au> <lfu2hqgat1.fsf@Samizdat.uucom.com> > How 'bout instead something that acts like an Xterminal: boot from net > (or floppy then net?), run the Xserver on the diskless box? I'd like > to have a house full of such boxes running off a decent-sized diskful > system. That way I don't have to backup or configure very much; scales > nicely. > > Any suggestion for setting this up? Get PicoBSD to do rarp and other > diskless boot operation, then get out of the way? The Linux Terminal Server Project just posted an image or instructions on how to get the iopener up and booted diskless off the network and run as a X-Terminal all in the 16M flash. This is what I wanted, too bad it's Linux :( -Tim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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