[plug] remote terminal

[I am the LinuxAlien]

I wish to have it similar to an xterm, but as a text terminal. Maybe 
booting form the network is what I want. Can you send some instructions 
then craig?
Thanks
Tim
At 22:27 30/07/2002 +0800, you wrote:
>>ow can i set up an old box as a remote terminal. i.e. not having a OS 
>>installed and booting from the network/grabbing a tty from the server. It 
>>has a 4x cdrom and a ISA netcard. I wish to have it as a terminal for my 
>>linux box.
>
>Easy except for the "grabbing a tty from the server" bit. Please explain 
>further - what do you mean by grabbing a tty from the server?
>
>If you meant displaying a server login screen on the client... hmm. I know 
>how to do it using X (and have been having much, much fun with that 
>lately) but the best I can think of for the console is instead of running 
>a getty from inittab you run a shell script that waits for the user to 
>enter a username then runs ssh to connect to the server and demand a 
>password for login. Perhaps there's some kind of getty already capable of 
>that sort of thing, but it isn't something I've needed to mess with.
>
>Remote boot is fairly easy - you probably want to use etherboot and a 
>floppy disk, plus an OS image on the server shared over NFS. I can send 
>you quick instructions ( no batteries included, assembly definitely 
>required ) for a debian-based custom one or you could try ltsp or 
>something like that. Up to you. Alternately you could prep a custom 
>bootable ISO if your machine's BIOS is up to it.

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