RE: Help making a 486 into an X Terminal
Take a look at the following - it explains how to do what you
are asking (and then some):
http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta/unix/xterminal
Pat
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kiyan Azarbar [mailto:kiyan@iname.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 1998 12:32 AM
> To: DEBIAN-USER list
> Subject: Help making a 486 into an X Terminal
>
>
> I had an idea recently. I would like to install a very minimal
> Linux/Debian
> base on the family 486. I already have a little LAN going here, using the
> 192.168.1.X subnet. We have three (sometimes four) computers
> connected, using
> coax/BNC and terminators. Everything is great, I even have samba
> set up so I
> can print, through magicfilter, to the BJC-4000 on my father's
> win95 machine.
>
> But the 486 is unsuited for connecting to the net. My brothers
> and mother use
> it for word processing (which I will leave that way, since I don't want to
> teach them LaTeX) and browsing the web. They do this fairly often
> but not for
> long periods. The 486 has a 14.4 modem, unfortunately.
>
> What I was hoping to do was to install a tiny linux distro on,
> say, 80 megs of
> HD space (it only has 400 megs total). I would install just the
> bare minimum
> for net connectivity, rudimentary system administration, and
> XFree86. I was
> wondering if this is possible in 80 megs? The purpose would be to
> start X in
> broadcast mode (or whatever it's called) so that the machine
> would basically
> become a glorified X terminal to my computer, so that my brothers
> can log on
> to MY box, and use MY netscape, and most importantly, my ppp connection at
> 33.6 kbps. This would double their bandwidth, and Netscape wouldn't be so
> piggish loading javascript and so forth.
>
> Is this possible? If so, what is the bare minimum I need. How do I get
> started? Is there a bootdisk package? I can copy any debs I need from my
> computer over to the share drive on the win95 machine, but I'm
> wondering how I
> should go about creating a partition for ext2fs, and how to install the
> kernel, etc. Should I just compile a tiny minimalist kernel there?
>
> And most importantly, where do I get fips?
>
> Thanks.
>
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