Re: What we're doing (was Re: [seul-edu] Another app you may like to see)

[Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com>]

Before you get started, you will also (probably) want to look at these URLS:

        http://www.ltsp.org/download/index.html
        http://www.silvervalley.k12.ca.us/chobbs/xterms/
        http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta/unix/xterminal/index.html
        http://www.superant.com/   (for the "Diskless Linux Tools" CD
                                    and the "TinyX Windows System CD")

I'll be surprised if you can pull this off with a 386. My experience is that
X performance is too crummy on anything less that a 486DX40 with 16 megs of
RAM ... though tastes differ, and what is "too slow" to me may be "works
just fine" to others.

BTW, I've been happy doing this with Monkry Linux, available under
"distributions" at metalab (ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/).
You might alo want to look at the "nfsroot" directory.

In any case, I'll be interested in seeing your results. Most of these sites
(including the .ca one the  prior respondent mentioned) seem to use pretty
old versions of Linux ... a solution that was more turnkey and that used an
up-to-date distribution and kernel (and set of X servers, WMs, and such)
would be nice.

At 09:23 PM 6/12/00 +0100, Dan Kolb wrote:
...
>Ack. Someone's beaten me to it then :-) I was going to try doing it
>completely diskless (well, just booting the kernel, and everything else
>over NFS). The idea was that it might be possible to put the kernel or
>loader onto an EPROM on the network card, so there'd be proper
>netbooting. I'll write up what I've done, so if anyone wants to try,
>they can. It might even be useful in schools if they've got assorted old
>386s which don't run much :-)

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Ray Olszewski                                        -- Han Solo
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