From: Richard.Kirkcaldy@IC24.net
Date: Tue May 22 2001 - 21:37:31 CEST
Hi,
Excuse my ignorance here, but if you are running the PC with the
root file system on the floppy and also running a vnc server then won't
most of the processing get done on the laptop anyway?
Here's my suggestion, which may be worse or better I don't know-
somebody please tell me:-
Swap the laptop hard disk for a PC hard disk.
Run proper linux (redhat or mandrake) on the PC with a vnc server running
(You'd have to have access to another computer to install the distro onto
the disk though.)
Run Mu on the laptop with just a vnc client and not a lot else, and use
that to connect to the PC. Of course you could run dos on the laptop,
personally I find it quicker to load if you're only using minimal stuff.
Good luck getting the dosvnc viewer working though...
Of course either way you have one and a half computers, and so I
personally would sell the laptop to pay for the extra hard ware on the PC.
You don't need to spend big bucks on it, second hand video cards mice and
keyboards are always advertised in our local papers. And whilst a new
graphics card and a big hard disk may be expensive I am quite happily
running an old two gig disk which is only half full even after installing
loads of goodies, and granted the graphics look bad with my one meg card -
but I'd need to upgrade the monitor as well and I'm not too bothered.
-- Richard Kirkcaldy, richard.kirkcaldy@ic24.net Ad astra per aspera. On Tue, 22 May 2001, Neil Zanella wrote: > Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 04:00:20 -0230 (NDT) > From: Neil Zanella <nzanella@cs.mun.ca> > Reply-To: mulinux@sunsite.dk > To: mulinux mailing list <mulinux@sunsite.dk> > Subject: mulinux question: monitorless diskless networked PC > > > Hello, > > I currently own the following hardware: > > - P166MMX laptop > > Recently I decided to purchase some speed so I bought the following: > > - Asus CUSL2 motherboard + PIII877 + 128MB PC133 SDRAM + CPU fan > > I will put these in a box with power supply and ethernet card but there > will be no mouse, no keyboard, no video card, no monitor, and no hard > drive. There will also be a cheap floppy drive. Here is what I plan to do: > > After connecting the laptop and the PC via a hub I want to boot big Linux > on the laptop and then boot mulinux on the PC. I want mulinux to do the > following as the system is booted: > > mulinux should load the kernel into RAM together with: > > - an ext2 file system > - X > - NFS > - ssh deamon > > After the kernel is loaded my laptop's entire hard drive is mounted via > NFS on a directory called /nfs. > > At this step I ssh to my PC. Since all of my laptop is mounted I can run > all sorts of programs (e.g. compilers!) much faster than on the P166 > laptop. > > At this point I want to run a gui based program on the PC but the PC > has no monitor so I need to view the output on the laptop. Hence I > do an export DISPLAY=laptop:0.0 and run the X application, hence I > need X on the PC (don't I?). > > Now can I do all of this with mulinux and do I really need X on the PC > or can I do without as I have NFS? Is mulinux the best for this purpose? > > Thanks, > > Neil > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: mulinux-unsubscribe@sunsite.dk > For additional commands, e-mail: mulinux-help@sunsite.dk > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mulinux-unsubscribe@sunsite.dk For additional commands, e-mail: mulinux-help@sunsite.dk
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