Re: xterminal
On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 04:26:01PM +0000, klaus@calis.han.de wrote:
> Hello Debian Developers,
>
> first of all thanks to everybody for providing me with this absolutely
> _outstanding_ distribution. I started with Linux in october '97 with buying a
> debian 1.3.1 CD at j.f.lehmanns and I'm very satisfied with it ever since.
> (Upgraded to hamm recently.)
>
> Now why I am writing...
> I extracted a _very_ small Linux-System out of my hamm to be installed on
> a server as the root-filesystem for x-terminals. Without X-Server and
> Kernel it is about 1.5 MB. With both less than 4MB. (Uncompressed)
> Ask me for details.
>
> (Maybe I should discuss my approach with some Linux-Pro's?)
>
> Now I would like to know if there is anybody interested in me making a
> special root-filesystem-for-xterminal.deb package out of it?
>
> I would have to work on some install-scripts and find a way to provide the
> xterminal with the right XF86Config, the right server and a kernel.
> Maybe setting up /etc/bootptab and assisting on making a netbootable-kernel
> and bootrom-image (using netboot).
>
> In the end it could be a simple package to set up xterminals on a server.
>
> Is there a need for something like that? Maybe someone else working on that?
I've been working with a few members of the local LUG to implement a
similar (the same?) concept, a big server and a bunch of diskless PCs
that mount it's root filesystem via NFSroot. It's based in the nfsroot
package by Joost Witteveen. Currently it's half done (documentation and
some scripts are missing), but it will be finished for slink.
--
Enrique Zanardi ezanardi@ull.es
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