On Mon, 22 Dec 2008, Ross Boylan wrote:
I switched to trying to get a 100Mhz Pentium with 64MB of RAM working.
Unfortunately, it can't boot from CD-ROM (maybe something broke--the CD
ROM is still readable, though). Nor does it directly support network
booting. Its disks are basically full; it's running Windows NT 4, but
my other family members are finding it intolerably slow. I was hoping
it would be adequate as an X terminal.
There is an easy way to turn an MS-Windows system into an XTerminal
although I'm not sure it will work with something as old as NT4.
- Install Cygwin.
- Install the X server
- Don't bother installing any other Cygwin tools as you won't be using
them.
- Use "X -query" as you normally would to connect to a remote display
manager that is accepting remote queries.
- Login
If you set the X server to be full screen then you can alt-tab between the
MS-Windows environment and the *nix environment.
It can take some time to explain to users that the apps they are running
are not runnning on the local box.
Otherwise for a box that can't boot from cdrom or NIC it would seem you'd
be stuck with floppy booting.
Rob
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