Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 18:06:54 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com> To: nunnari <roberto.nunnari@agie.ch> Cc: questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: pc as a x-terminal Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.990830174950.43756B-100000@shell-3.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <37CA9131.5E174FB9@agie.ch>
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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
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