On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Ross Boylan wrote:
I switched to trying to get a 100Mhz Pentium with 64MB of RAM working. Unfortunately, it can't boot from CD-ROM (maybe something broke--the CD ROM is still readable, though). Nor does it directly support network booting. Its disks are basically full; it's running Windows NT 4, but my other family members are finding it intolerably slow. I was hoping it would be adequate as an X terminal.
There is an easy way to turn an MS-Windows system into an XTerminal although I'm not sure it will work with something as old as NT4.
- Install Cygwin. - Install the X server- Don't bother installing any other Cygwin tools as you won't be using them.
- Use "X -query" as you normally would to connect to a remote display manager that is accepting remote queries.
- LoginIf you set the X server to be full screen then you can alt-tab between the MS-Windows environment and the *nix environment.
It can take some time to explain to users that the apps they are running are not runnning on the local box.
Otherwise for a box that can't boot from cdrom or NIC it would seem you'd be stuck with floppy booting.
Rob -- I tried to change the world but they had a no-return policy