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From: David Conran
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 1997 00:00

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"Wayne" <wjackson@powerup.com.au> writes:

> I was going through the X Term howto, but it did not give me the info that
>I was looking for!

>I have access to about 4 486 machines without harddrives.  What I want to is
>to turn this into to terminals only.  There is a 3.5" fdd on each system.

>What texts are available on setting up these systems as terminals for use in
>an office.

>We will be have about 2 servers for the network, one being the terminal's
>server the other a web server as we will be running an intranet.

>Wayne

>http://www.powerup.com.au/~wjackson


If you are interested in doing this on FreeBSD .. then I can show you how.

I have done this with a whole host of 486+8M+1.44 Floppy. (You can get away
with a 720k floppy if you need)

As long as the FreeBSD kernel supports your ethernet card .. then it should
work fine.


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