Re: Using old diskless machine as X terminal
2008/12/22 Ross Boylan <ross@biostat.ucsf.edu>:
> I have an old machine without a working hard disk that I'd like to use
> to connect to my main machine and run X.
>
> I believe that I could boot off of knoppix, but is there something
> easier I could do with the stuff already on my main machine--maybe
> setting up an image and transmitting over the network at boot time? The
> machine has a CD drive, but I'm not sure it's working.
I have no experience of doing this myself, but my understanding is
that if your X terminal machine's BIOS allows you to boot from
ethernet, then I think you should be able to set up another machine to
send a boot command and boot & root "partitions" (for want of a better
word) over the ethernet to your X terminal machine when you want to
boot it.
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