Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 11:42, Duncan Lithgow wrote:As XDMC seemed to quickly give a response and do something (i'm not sure what yet) I might as well go with that, it is already part of the fedora core base installation after all.
I want to setup an old lap to run as an x-terminal. I know nothing about doing this yet, I only know that it can be done and think it's called an x-terminal. It gives me a remote login to my main machine right?
Sadly I can't search "x-terminal" in our archive in gmane and all that I found throught google was at least 3 years old. The only promising thing I found was this thread on fedora-devel-list:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-May/msg00757.html
... from that list it looks like I should get to know and use LCFG http://www.lcfg.org/
not becaue I need it fro my little laptop, but because it's scalable etc.
Simple way: Run 'gdmconfig' on your main machine, click the XDMCP tab and check the enable XDMCP box, then restart X. Set up the laptop to boot to text mode. Start X manually with: X -query your_server Log into the main server.
If you want to set up a system specifically for this, check out the k12ltsp distribution which has rebuilt fedora ISOs which will come up ready to network-boot thin clients so you don't even have to install anything on them.
Of course it isn't working yet, I took the harddrive out of the laptop to be sure it'd try a network boot, and it did. So, now I'm getting:
CLIENT MAV ADDR: etc... GUID etc... PXE-E51: No DHCP or proxyDHCP offers were received.
PXE-MOF: Exiting Intel PXE ROM.
Then it tries the same again, after two tries it gives up.
This is no supprise to me, of course my compuetr isn't just saying "hi, stranger, welcome in" but I don't know how to procees, remember this is all new to me, not just x-terminals but linux generally.
Thanks, Duncan
PS: Should I seriously consider getting to grips with another way of doing this, or just go with this XDHCP thing for now?
