From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 30 16: 7:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop3-3.enteract.com (pop3-3.enteract.com [207.229.143.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 09BF915106 for ; Mon, 30 Aug 1999 16:07:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dscheidt@tumbolia.com) Received: (qmail 23187 invoked from network); 30 Aug 1999 23:06:54 -0000 Received: from shell-3.enteract.com (dscheidt@207.229.143.42) by pop3-3.enteract.com with SMTP; 30 Aug 1999 23:06:54 -0000 Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 18:06:54 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt X-Sender: dscheidt@shell-3.enteract.com To: nunnari Cc: questions Subject: Re: pc as a x-terminal In-Reply-To: <37CA9131.5E174FB9@agie.ch> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 30 Aug 1999, nunnari wrote: > 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. To netboot, you need a card that supports it. see diskless(8). Easier to install a minimal root filesystem, and nfs mount everything else. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message