[H-GEN] Diskless boxes for internet access

Steve Pinel spinel at ssc.qld.edu.au
Thu Jan 8 21:14:51 EST 1998


I would like to tap the accumulative wisdom and experience of all you HUMBUGers.

(Hello Ray, 'tis I, brother-in-law of Steve D)

I have the opportunity to score a handful of diskless 386s (8M RAM) for a
very low price, with 10base2 (coax) network cards with boot ROMs for Novell
networks.

I am planning on using the machines as Internet access (WWW) machines in my
school, say in the library and staff rooms.  The original plan was to boot
up  in Dos from the Novell server, and run something like Arachne.  Anyone
know of any other Dos based graphical Web browsers?  Lynx is no good.  Must
be bright and colourful for the kiddies, or they'll just go outside in the
sun and play football or something.

The only problem being that i don't have any DOS licenses floating around
that I could use, and the cost of them would probably be close to that of
the machines themselves, if not more.

Does anyone know if I could boot them up into Linux from the Novell network,
and then run some X browser?  Is there a neater way to do it than that?  Any
ideas appreciated.

BTW, there are probably a few of the 386 machines left if anyone is
interested.  Not sure if they are SX or DX, but they have 8M RAM, monitor
(standard unknown,  I think VGA colour), network card, but no keyboard.
Price is around $65.  Don't know if this is good or standard.
Steve Pinel	<><	|
Computer Coordinator	|	God our Strength
Saint Stephen's College	|	Excellence our Pursuit
Coomera, Gold Coast	|

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