From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 9 21:16:39 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA16427 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 21:16:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from mail1.realtime.net (mail1.realtime.net [205.238.128.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA16421 for ; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 21:16:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jktheowl@bga.com) Received: (qmail 15414 invoked from network); 10 Dec 1997 05:16:22 -0000 Received: from zoom.realtime.net (HELO zoom.bga.com) (root@205.238.128.40) by mail1.realtime.net with SMTP; 10 Dec 1997 05:16:22 -0000 Received: from barnowl (apm0-55.realtime.net [205.238.146.55]) by zoom.bga.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id XAA00281; Tue, 9 Dec 1997 23:16:18 -0600 Date: Tue, 9 Dec 1997 23:21:07 -0600 (CST) From: John Kenagy X-Sender: jktheowl@barnowl To: Greg Lehey cc: mlduke@concentric.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Second Station" Revised In-Reply-To: <19971209145343.11187@lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 > 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 > >