RE: diskless systems
You could take a look at http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta/unix/xterminal/
Seems to do basically what you want, as always customise to suit :)
Proinnsias
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen J. Carpenter [SMTP:sjc@delphi.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 24, 1998 1:22 PM
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org; John_Gay@3com.com
> Subject: Re: diskless systems
>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 05:25:08AM +0100, John_Gay@3com.com wrote:
> > I was wondering if Debian supported diskless systems?
>
> My tests have worked well :)
>
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> It turns out I have been working on a HOWTO-ish file on this...
> http://people.delphi.com/sjc/linux (its actually a link off from there)
>
> Its called the "poor mans XTerminal" (because I can't afford a Real
> XTerminal ;) )
>
> It is not exactly "done" yet....
> I am yet to hack up support for using floppy disks on it locally
> (ho woften do you do that?) and sound support is kinda ....being worked on
> :)
> (I did get NAS working -- kinda)
>
> But...as a simple XTerminal the system should work...never tried it on
> a 386 per se but....I did a quick and dirty test on a SUN IPC I have
> lyiong around and it seems to work
>
>
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