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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Network Dumb Terminal? Date: 22 Apr 1996 06:37:34 GMT Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden Lines: 19 Message-ID: <4lf9fe$hmg@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <4lemh8$7d6@its.hooked.net> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 mclark@hooked.net (Matt Clark) writes: > Ok. Here Is What I Want To Do: I want to have an old Compaq 386/sx > do a remote boot off of my FreeBSD server and then act like a dumb > terminal without having to load the a complete kernel (640k of ram > can't do much), IE act like a serial dumb terminal but use my > mini-LAN at home. Is this possible? I think it's possible, but you will have to go great lengths to get it running. The best chances are that you replace /sbin/init by some- thing that acts as a terminal emulator (e.g. a tweaked telnet that handles the network device initialization itself). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)