Re: Turning PCs into X terminals

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From: Bryden Winston OLIVER
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 1995 00:00

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Carl Renneberg <renneber@tmx.mhs.oz.au> writes:

>What I'd like to do is make a self-contained boot floppy that has a minimal
>Linux system (X, networking, bootp, etc), and which I could use to turn a PC
>into an X terminal. That way, users like myself could access X apps on the
>Suns from any PC.

Well I'm sure something similar has, but what you will need to do is put 
X on a hard disk, it's just too big for a floppy, but other than that it
shouldn't be too difficult, just install on each PC's hard disk and then create
a boot disk for each. As long as they have hard disks, you could just use
what is known as lilo, which allows you to boot to different OS's like Linux
and DOS, and you would be set.

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