Take a look at the following - it explains how to do what you are asking (and then some):
http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta/unix/xterminal Pat > -----Original Message----- > From: Kiyan Azarbar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 1998 12:32 AM > To: DEBIAN-USER list > Subject: Help making a 486 into an X Terminal > > > I had an idea recently. I would like to install a very minimal > Linux/Debian > base on the family 486. I already have a little LAN going here, using the > 192.168.1.X subnet. We have three (sometimes four) computers > connected, using > coax/BNC and terminators. Everything is great, I even have samba > set up so I > can print, through magicfilter, to the BJC-4000 on my father's > win95 machine. > > But the 486 is unsuited for connecting to the net. My brothers > and mother use > it for word processing (which I will leave that way, since I don't want to > teach them LaTeX) and browsing the web. They do this fairly often > but not for > long periods. The 486 has a 14.4 modem, unfortunately. > > What I was hoping to do was to install a tiny linux distro on, > say, 80 megs of > HD space (it only has 400 megs total). I would install just the > bare minimum > for net connectivity, rudimentary system administration, and > XFree86. I was > wondering if this is possible in 80 megs? The purpose would be to > start X in > broadcast mode (or whatever it's called) so that the machine > would basically > become a glorified X terminal to my computer, so that my brothers > can log on > to MY box, and use MY netscape, and most importantly, my ppp connection at > 33.6 kbps. This would double their bandwidth, and Netscape wouldn't be so > piggish loading javascript and so forth. > > Is this possible? If so, what is the bare minimum I need. How do I get > started? Is there a bootdisk package? I can copy any debs I need from my > computer over to the share drive on the win95 machine, but I'm > wondering how I > should go about creating a partition for ext2fs, and how to install the > kernel, etc. Should I just compile a tiny minimalist kernel there? > > And most importantly, where do I get fips? > > Thanks. > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing > A. Kiyan Azarbar its opponents and making them see the light, but > Ottawa, Canada rather because its opponents eventually die and a > Linux 2.0.33 new generation grows up that is familiar with it. > 1024/0x9A9EC5EA 4F3ADBDA1EE5850209DD8BB205250ED2F696A7BE ^- Max Planck > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
