Re: diskless "tubes"

["Jason M. Felice" <jasonf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Nov 01, 1999 at 03:24:53PM -0600, Chad S. Lauritsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> a while back I saw a lot of traffic/discussions regarding using tn5250
> on an old PC to use as a diskless workstation. I have been able to to
> NFS boot an old 386 with a floppy and no hard drive, but tn5250 (or
> something else??) crashes on me and stops responding to keystrokes
> pretty regularly. I was disappointed, because i thought the hard part
> would be getting NFS boot to work, turned out that was pretty easy.
> 
> Weird thing is that tn5250 works (seemingly) okay on another newer, more
> powerful machine. At least I haven't had the weird crashes.

What version are you using?  What kind of crashes are you getting
(SEGV+core dump, or 'Assertion failed', or what?)

> 
> Anyone out there had luck with a diskless solution or have any advice?
> Anyone know why my tn5250 crashes? It have a *very* minimal impromptu
> distribution made up in a directory on another linux box to server over
> NFS.
> 

Other software components from your 'distro' may be problems, depending
on the versions...  what version of libc are you using?  ncurses?
kernel?  If you're using the newer libc6 (glibc2) - did you also install
the libnss_files.so library?

Also, you may want to check http://www.ltsp.org - they have information on
doing similar via an X server-type boot diskette.

-Jay 'Eraserhead' Felice

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