Re: diskless systems
On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 01:45:29PM +0100, Breathnach, Proinnsias (Dublin) wrote:
> 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 :)
Yes very true...
in fact thats one of the resources I used in writing my docs initally
very very good doc..
I planed on giving him credit (Richard Kaszta was the first person
to offer me help when I anounced my doc!) I just need to "get around to it"
much like everything else
-Steve
> 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 :)
> >
> []
> > 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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