> I was wondering if Debian supported diskless systems? I plan to get a very > high performance system for myself and wanted to set-up a diskless terminal > for my daughter that would have full access to X Window via either a > null-modem cable or a 10baseT connection and was wondering just how cheap a > system I could get for my daughters PC? I was hoping I could get away with > just a 386 or less set-up as a dummy term with a good video card for X > Window and not much else that would boot from my PC. Is this possible, or > do I have to at least have a minimum root installation on the remote PC to > be able to connect? Thank you for your assistance.
One problem you may have is getting a decent display - pick.sel(my machine) is an old 486dx4 100 and has only ISA buses, for which it seems to be impossible to get cards with a decent amount of memory :(((( Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
