Well I am putting together a big website devoted to our setup since I have gotten tons of questions on it. To put together a system in the fashion that we do it takes just two steps.
Turn on xdm on the server and make it available for clients to connect to. This takes care of the server nothing else needs to be done. Load a client with whatever distro you want. Make a single line change to the bottom of the /etc/inittab file. Change the line to point X at your server. I think the correct format for the line is x5:respawn:/usr/X11R6/bin/X -query server.domain.com All this does is to tell the client to query the server for it's display. If you get rejected by the server only two things can be wrong, either the server cannot resolve your clients name and or xdm is not set to accept outside connections. As long as xdm is set to accept outside connections on the server when you boot the client it will jump straight into a login screen. It really does nothing different than ltsp other than the fact that the client is running linux and minimal x windows locally. Cliff -----Original Message----- From: pedro noticioso To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 1/18/03 9:45 PM Subject: RE: [Ltsp-discuss] More info on the mini-itx on compact flash can you make a mini howto on this? I am looking forward on using old hard drives to boot 386 machines with no PCI cards and my last attepmt at booting linux from them was just a mess 8) --- "Baeseman, Cliff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think I had at least 10MB still free but I could > free up a few megs if I > got rid of vi, telnet, bash, X11 fonts which I am > not even using anyhow. > Actually I think that it could be squeezed into a > 16MB card if I worked at > it a little. > > Cliff > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rick Gatewood > To: Baeseman, Cliff; > '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Sent: 1/17/03 5:22 PM > Subject: Re: [Ltsp-discuss] More info on the > mini-itx on compact flash > > On Friday 17 January 2003 03:38 pm, Baeseman, Cliff > wrote: > > http://www.greenheck.com/cliff > > > > Here are some nice high res pics of the insides of > the mini itx and it > > running peewee linux > > connecting to our terminal server. > > > Cool! Totally cool and solid state! Totally solid > state! How much room > did you > have left on the flash? > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com - A > 128-bit supercerts will > allow you to extend the highest allowed 128 bit > encryption to all your > clients even if they use browsers that are limited > to 40 bit encryption. > Get a guide > here:http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0030en > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or > change prefs, goto: > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com - A 128-bit supercerts will allow you to extend the highest allowed 128 bit encryption to all your clients even if they use browsers that are limited to 40 bit encryption. Get a guide here:http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0030en _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: Thawte.com - A 128-bit supercerts will allow you to extend the highest allowed 128 bit encryption to all your clients even if they use browsers that are limited to 40 bit encryption. Get a guide here:http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0030en _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
