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

[Doug Loss <dloss@suscom.net>]

Dan Kolb wrote:

> Josh Levine wrote:
> >
> > > It would be interesting to see what you'd come up with. I was thinking
> > > about looking into setting up 386/486 machines as (dumb) Xterms over the
> > > summer when I've got some spare time to play with.
> >
> > I'm actually in the process of doing this right now with about 300 IBM
> > EduQuests.
>
> 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.

Dan, take a look at the Linux Terminal Server Project <http://www.ltsp.org> for
info on setting up Linux diskless workstations.  There's also Rich Kaszeta's
article from Linux Gazette <http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue27/kaszeta.html>.
It deals with using a Debian install on older hardware for X terminals.  Since
the 68K Macs are easiest to setup using Debian, I found his article very
helpful.

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