Re: Using old diskless machine as X terminal
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 11:10:27AM -0800, 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 your old box doesn't do (or can't do) network booting, then you'll
need to give it some kind of hard bootable image. The problem with
knoppix is that it uses so much ram. You could try grml (it may use
less ram, I don't know).
Alternatively, if you can't find a free hard drive would be to use a
CF-IDE adapter and use a CF card as a hard disk. The CF standard means
that a CF card looks just like an IDE drive to the IDE controller. They
make adapters that either fit in a bay, perhaps taking a CF through a
slot, or that plugs directly onto the IDE port on the MB.
Doug.
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