On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 12:34:33AM -0500, William Park wrote:

Ah, I see where's the confusion. Once you mount NFS root, you have a "normal" root tree. So, this is no different from your fully loaded computer. How do you get the remote server to open XDM login prompt on your screen. Essentially, you do 'X -query server', right?

Yup!

With X-terminal, we automate this by modifying /etc/inittab. In Slackware, run level 4 is XDM mode and it will run /etc/rc.d/rc.4. You can edit that, or assign unused run level 5 for X-terminal purpose. You can also trim NFS root tree, because once X is up, everything will be run on the server.

This is where Fraser's comment comes in. Yes, we can do the XDM bits in /etc/inittab on the mounted NFS filesystem and all... But why not use the LTSP packages for client kernel/BOOTP server/NFS configuration/server X configuration/maybe some specialised admin tools? That's all LTSP is: diskless NFS-rooted X terminals plus server in a pretty set of packages. :) -- taa "One measure of sanity is how closely one's internal representation of the world really resembles the world. By this measure humans are at least quite unsane." -- Ad Krzybsk /*eof*/ -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml