From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 25 13:08:40 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id NAA19262 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 13:08:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from cedb.dpcsys.com (cedb.dpcsys.com [206.16.184.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA19257 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 13:08:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dpcsys.com) Received: from localhost (dan@localhost) by cedb.dpcsys.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with SMTP id UAA17041 for ; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 20:08:39 GMT Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 13:08:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Dan Busarow To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Q: Diskless X terminals In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Open Systems Networking wrote: > > Im trying to dig up info on building diskless X terminals for a cyber > > cafe. Are there any FAQ's on diskless about or anyone with experience > > building diskless X boxes? > > Take a look at the FreeBSD FAQ and handbook for starters. There is a > section on setting up diskless stations. Diskless with X (x terminals as > you will) are a bit trickier tho. The "trick" for X is to make /tmp a MEMFS filesystem. That was the only undocumented setting I ran into when setting one up. Also see http://www.freebsd.org/~fsmp/HomeAuto/diskless/net_dl21.html which is hard to find from the website but seemed more useful to me than the Handbook section. Dan -- Dan Busarow 714 443 4172 DPC Systems / Beach.Net dan@dpcsys.com Dana Point, California 83 09 EF 59 E0 11 89 B4 8D 09 DB FD E1 DD 0C 82