Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1995 10:21:39 +0500 From: Jerry.Kendall@vmicls.com (Jerry Kendall) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Diskless systems Message-ID: <9512151521.AA17537.gonzo@vmicls.com>
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Greetings fellow earthlings.....
I have finished getting my diskless server running X.....
I have XDM running on my Pentium with 16 Megs of ram and lots of disk space..
I have setup my old 386DX-40 to be a diskless X terminal running
FreeBSD 2.0.5R and X.
The diskless X terminals hierarchy on the Pentium is about 3 Meg in size...
Not bad eh??? See below for info.
The 386 will boot to a 'config.sys/autoexec.bat' DOS menu system. I select
the X-terminal option and it boots over the net from the pentium.
I loads /kernel which does it's thing, runs /etc/rc which will
run /sbin/ifconfig for the ethernet adapter card, then it mounts
the roots FS(it was mounted READ-ONLY at boot) with READ-WRITE
perms, it then mounts a nother FS from the Pentium that has the fonts(XFS
uses about 1 Meg of ram) available, At this point it loads the X server in
query mode to connect to the Pentium.
I have now got 2 seperate 386 class systems running as X terminals, Each
requires about 1.5 Meg of stuff in its roots filesystem, the rest that
each needs is located in a common location. Total space by both: 4.75 Meg,
1.25 Per system and 2.25(Shared, via NFS) for the minimal X.
The exact details I can supply to all he would like them.
I am going to spend the next few days(probably weeks) creating a 'HOW TO'
guide and then post it to FreeBSD.org... Hopefully Jordan and the gang will
add it to the handbook.
Any way, I will be doing this from home(jerry@kcis.com), so if interm
assistance is needed by some one, feel free to send me the
details(to jerry@kcis.com).... Yes I have registered in the hackers list
there as well as here(at work).
BTW: the same setup can be used to implement full FreeBSD diskless systems,
this is where I started from....
Jerry
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