Re: Using old diskless machine as X terminal

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 12/22/08 13:10, Ross Boylan wrote:
> 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.
>
> If I can use stuff I've already downloaded, it will go faster.

If the machine's NIC supports "LAN boot", then you can use ltsp.

$ apt-cache search ltsp

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