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- From: hirai@cc.swarthmore.edu (Eiji Hirai)
- Subject: Re: Using Decstation 3100 as Xterminal (Minimal Ultrix Setup)
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- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 03:26:50 GMT
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- bryan@wupost.wustl.edu (bryan o'connor) writes:
- > I would like to use it as an X-terminal -- without having it
- > remote boot.
-
- Yes, it's doable with about 20M of disk space (if you include fonts). I've
- never actually done it on a DECstation but you can definitely copy what's
- done to Sun-3s to make them X terminals. You can ftp the examples from:
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- sol.ctr.columbia.edu:/pub/Xkernel/Xkernel.1.5.
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- Basically, just boot with vmunix, and make /bin/init be a shell script that
- does minimal setup with ifconfig and stuff, then exec the X server.
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