Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 23:21:07 -0600 (CST) From: John Kenagy <jktheowl@bga.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: mlduke@concentric.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Second Station" Revised Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971209230317.398A-100000@barnowl> In-Reply-To: <19971209145343.11187@lemis.com>
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On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Mon, Dec 08, 1997 at 09:05:31PM -0900, mlduke@concentric.net wrote: > > I've got one FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE full tower box and I want to attach > > a second monitor to it to run in my Daughter's room. A plug in like the > > one my current monitor is plugged into does not exist on the back of > > the box, and I don't know what to ask for in order to acquire the > > necessary hardware. > > Well, it *is* possible to connect a second monitor to a FreeBSD <snip> > The alternative, which could even be cheaper, is to connect a serial > terminal to one of the serial ports. You should be able to pick up a > serial terminal second hand quite cheaply. None of this is very > exciting. That doesn't give you an X display, of course, unless you > use an X terminal, which would require an Ethernet connection, but > you'll probably find it easier to install a second machine, maybe a > smaller one (old 386) which would just need to run the display and > connect to the first machine for the processing. Again, of course, > you'd need an Ethernet connection, though you could possibly use PPP > instead. > This is exactly the solution I used for my wife's mother. I han an old 386SX (25mhz) oooh! I bought a recycled 200Mb IDE, cheap NE2000 clone and coax from my dealer, the O'Reilly book on NFS and NIS from the bookstore, grabbed a screwdriver and went to work. Two hours later, I had an X station running in her room. Read a little and got NFS running. Things to watch out for: (This isn't elegant but it works and is cheap) Netscape complains about colormaps due to differing X servers and I have not chased that out since Ruth uses Lynx to browse - dosen't care about spiffy stuff. Be aware that if you mount /usr on the NFS client it will "replace" the client's /usr so you might want to put home directories elsewhere as I did. The NE2000 card needed to have DOS running to configure itself, so make sure you finish that install before wiping out the dos files. Other than that it is a simple ftp install over a network. Read, the manuals and FAQs. If you have any other questions, just post me. John > > Local (Nampa, Idaho) and Anchorage custom computer folks don't have a > > clue as I've been able to learn so far (one I thought to be among the > > better of Anchorage cc's even told me Unix is old, outdated and not > > used much anymore and would hear nothing to the contrary). > > I'm sure he knows exactly what he's talking about, too :-) > > Greg > >
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