how-to for x-terminal newbie

[Garry Harthill]

On 12/05/05, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 11:55, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
> > >
> > >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.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> 
> There are two different things involved here.  XDMCP just gives
> you the ability to get a graphic login from X running on another
> box (and after the login, the desktop and apps will run there).
> However, you still have make the laptop run X yourself.  You can
> install enough Linux for that, or run the Cygwin version under
> MS-windows, or boot a run-from-CD version of Linux into text
> mode and start X manually with the
> X -query your_server command I mentioned earlier.  I'd try one
> of these first, probably a knoppix CD, entering 'knoppix 2' at the
> boot prompt to make it start in text mode.
> 
> If you want to network-boot the laptop, you need to set up additional
> software.  You can either add the ltsp package to your existing server
> or reinstall from the k12ltsp distribution which will have what you
> need built-in.  This part basically just loads linux over the
> network to the point where you have X running, then does the XDMCP
> login as above.
> 
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I would install Windows or a small Linux distribution on your laptop.
Install VNC on your main Linux box then use VNC client on your Laptop.