[SunRescue] Re: turn SPARCs to Xterminals

[Bjrn Ramqvist]

Mark Price wrote:
> 
> While I was looking around yesterday on the internet I found an
> interesting package, The SPARC-Linux Xterminal.  It lets you take any
> sun4c/sun4m machine with 12MB RAM, framebuffer, monitor, keyboard, mouse
> and turn it into an XTerminal.  It boots your Xterminal over the network,
> so no floppies or hard disks needed.  I set it up yesterday and am now
> using an IPC w/ CG3 and 19" monitor as an Xterminal, booting off my
> Pentium 166 linux box.

Sounds more or like just as another useful solution called the "Sun
Xkernel" that was the first one popping up on the net. Consists basicly
of a stripped SunOS with a "noswap" device hacked into the kernel. Today
(I think) it should support sun3/sun3x/sun4/sun4c but I don't know about
sun4m. It supports all the major cards that SunOS accepts and could
easily go with 8MB or even as low as 4MB on a mono-system (SLC/ELC).
(All our SLC's are stripped to 4MB)
We use it for a couple of SLC, ELC, SS1+ and SS2's and works like a
charm. If you're used to booting suns over the net, or even "dataless"
clients, this is a very small and easy solution.
We boot these off a Pentium 150 linux box, as we use for X-login as
well.

Also a nice solution, along with the Linux X-kernel alternative.
Should be available on the net if you search for it.