There's a Diskless-HOWTO that might be of interest to you. Judah
Nick Cummings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have two old machines sitting around the office (both are something > like Pentium 200 MHz with 64 MB of RAM) and we have a visitor for a few > months with no computer to use at the moment. I'd like to make one of > those a useful terminal, probably just something that could run X so the > user could ssh to another machine and run programs on the remote machine. > Is anyone aware of a good (preferably easy to setup and manage) distro for > what I want that will work on that sort of hardware? > > I'm not sure if this is exactly what people mean when they say > "thin client", but I thought that was the right direction, so I did some > looking. I found, for example, ThinStation > > http://thinstation.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/ThIndex > > which looks like it might work. I'm wondering if any of you have tried > doing something like this and have suggestions as to a best bet. As I > said, ease is a pretty big priority here, so a fairly ready-made solution > is what I'm seeking. > > Nick >
