Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 02:44:20 +0200 From: hw <hw@adminart.net> To: MJ <mafsys1234@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to install into a directory Message-ID: <87lfw5pzx7.fsf@toy.adminart.net> In-Reply-To: <18a2c14c-0767-534a-dc48-dbd167180e1b@gmail.com> (MJ's message of "Mon, 5 Aug 2019 12:17:44 %2B1000") References: <871ry05xea.fsf@toy.adminart.net> <18a2c14c-0767-534a-dc48-dbd167180e1b@gmail.com>
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MJ <mafsys1234@gmail.com> 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.
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