From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Wed Aug 7 00:44:45 2019 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F175EB7D1A for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2019 00:44:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lee@adminart.net) Received: from mo6-p00-ob.smtp.rzone.de (mo6-p00-ob.smtp.rzone.de [IPv6:2a01:238:20a:202:5300::6]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "*.smtp.rzone.de", Issuer "TeleSec ServerPass Class 2 CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 463CSr2w4Fz3yGT for ; Wed, 7 Aug 2019 00:44:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lee@adminart.net) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; t=1565138681; s=strato-dkim-0002; d=adminart.net; h=References:Message-ID:Date:In-Reply-To:Subject:Cc:To:From: X-RZG-CLASS-ID:X-RZG-AUTH:From:Subject:Sender; bh=EPtrBYBoSKU8wsyRTBl+eDBZoN6JN8bpBizJ+Brxa5M=; b=aPNpYc6NU5PbXzD9cqQN2sfKVrVYVumX1V7Ko0yb/Ptt+mseKOrt1Iyw0Li+R7I3N/ /OEHMFQdE/6BQHdCU2ojD0eEDW59kQ1rNPEskfgbJRPHgNAp0B6ebmPeTSvGpyjE5Xv8 aiCZx1pPjlg3n5u/XgCqXyU/IOGOrLTrStySdWet6q2Ag/i+FUh4V1RBv1i8Kyn82f6/ LjsrtB9G5O0MK99d9tSAeLtSciHwbOvnbgQNTkhGE1vD+O1A7l4a6QWLNzuDydx5hcoG +7GZuqKPby/p3V8uXQQ+1QQzGzTthBTJGJYP1CnM17Nt0FhKivhmJ3PVXKRj9Vkq0YT6 YBEw== X-RZG-AUTH: ":O2kGeEG7b/pS1FS4THaxjVF9w0vVgfQ9xGcjwO5WMRo5c+h5ceMqQWZ3yrBp+ARdaXvxIDf7nlw=" X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 Received: from himinbjorg.adminart.net by smtp.strato.de (RZmta 44.24 DYNA|AUTH) with ESMTPSA id e0059dv770iekYv (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (curve secp521r1 with 521 ECDH bits, eq. 15360 bits RSA)) (Client did not present a certificate); Wed, 7 Aug 2019 02:44:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from toy.adminart.net ([192.168.3.55]) by himinbjorg.adminart.net with esmtps (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1hvA4F-0001Wj-Or; Wed, 07 Aug 2019 02:44:39 +0200 Received: from lee by toy.adminart.net with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1hvA4F-0000yB-Mt; Wed, 07 Aug 2019 02:44:39 +0200 From: hw To: MJ Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to install into a directory In-Reply-To: <18a2c14c-0767-534a-dc48-dbd167180e1b@gmail.com> (MJ's message of "Mon, 5 Aug 2019 12:17:44 +1000") Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 02:44:20 +0200 Organization: my virtual residence Message-ID: <87lfw5pzx7.fsf@toy.adminart.net> References: <871ry05xea.fsf@toy.adminart.net> <18a2c14c-0767-534a-dc48-dbd167180e1b@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 463CSr2w4Fz3yGT X-Spamd-Bar: --- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=pass header.d=adminart.net header.s=strato-dkim-0002 header.b=aPNpYc6N; dmarc=none; spf=none (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of lee@adminart.net has no SPF policy when checking 2a01:238:20a:202:5300::6) smtp.mailfrom=lee@adminart.net X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-3.85 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_ALLOW(-0.20)[adminart.net:s=strato-dkim-0002]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-1.00)[-1.000,0]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; TO_DN_SOME(0.00)[]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-0.999,0]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[adminart.net]; HAS_ORG_HEADER(0.00)[]; RCVD_COUNT_THREE(0.00)[4]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; DKIM_TRACE(0.00)[adminart.net:+]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; NEURAL_HAM_SHORT(-0.98)[-0.980,0]; R_SPF_NA(0.00)[]; FORGED_SENDER(0.30)[hw@adminart.net,lee@adminart.net]; FREEMAIL_TO(0.00)[gmail.com]; RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW(-0.10)[6.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.3.5.2.0.2.0.a.0.2.0.8.3.2.0.1.0.a.2.list.dnswl.org : 127.0.5.1]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:6724, ipnet:2a01:238::/32, country:DE]; FROM_NEQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[hw@adminart.net,lee@adminart.net]; IP_SCORE(-0.77)[ipnet: 2a01:238::/32(-3.41), asn: 6724(-0.45), country: DE(-0.01)] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 00:44:46 -0000 MJ writes: > The archives contained here: > > https://download.freebsd.org/ftp/releases/amd64/amd64/12.0-RELEASE/ > > > Assuming you're amd64 based. Extract them into that directory. Yes, thanks! It can't get any easier :) I got it to work today, so I can PXE boot FreeBSD and kinda *jump* users into an xfreerdp session on the xrdp server right after they logged in at the console, abusing startx as login shell and a suitable .xinitrc in their home directories mounted via NFS. What I couldn't get to work is XDM doing that for me, which seemed to be the way it ought to be done. Like a machine would PXE boot and show XDM and a user logs in and instead of XDM starting a window manager, it starts xfreerdp --- which also raises the question how I could avoid requiring the user to log in twice after getting XDM to work somehow. For the record, the Thinstation stuff didn't work at all. It was impossible to create a bootable image (perhaps Fedora is an incompatible host system), and even the VM image they supply to make images is not bootable (which otherwise should be compatible so that bootable images can be made ...). So save your time and go to FreeBSD instead.