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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!blackbush.xlink.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: 2 quickies Date: 7 May 1996 21:34:29 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 32 Message-ID: <4mofl5$aut@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <318F2476.12D1@nation-net.com> 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 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Paul Walsh <paul@nation-net.com> wrote: > 1. Does XFree86 have to be installed with the system ? I can't get it to > install from the cd, "can't find X11R6" is the message !!. Someone point > me to some general X help please. All the files in the XF86312 directory on your CD-ROM are gzipped tarballs. You can look at them with ``tar -tzf <filename>''. There's also a README explaining the different files. > 2. How do I use a PC as a dumb terminal, not with telnet. Is this what > booting 'diskless' means? Booting diskless means to load the image across the Ethernet, and to mount the / and /usr file systems from a server host via NFS (and to arrange for swapping via NFS). What do you want? A PC with Unix or something else running a terminal emulation (like kermit)? > 3. Is DNS and HTTPD on the same machine a bad idea ( i heard )? I can't imagine why. (Of course, if your server is going to be heavy-loaded serving HTTP requests, you will be lucky for each small service you can offload to a different machine.) -- 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. ;-)