Re: Using old diskless machine as X terminal
On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 18:03:10 -0500
"Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@vianet.ca> wrote:
> 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).
Or Debian-live, which is incredibly customizable, although that will
obviously involve work.
Celejar
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