Re: OT - Suggest Network Terminal Where Netbsd Installs Easily

> Is there a very cheap network terminal (used which can
> be picked up easily for under $50) upon which it is
> easy to install Netbsd?

Not sure about the "under $50" part, but the
Linksys NSLU2 or IO-DATA Landisk
might do what you want.  You could look at:

  http://ww
w.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/faq.html (NSLU2)

or:

  http://www.nabble.com/how-to-install-NetBSD-lan
disk-t3275735.html (Landisk)

for more information on them.

J

-- 
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Newbiggin
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Thanks for the suggestions, although the Linksys SLUG
is cool, I don't think that I would have much
justification spending 85-120 on it.

I see serial terminals on ebay, some rather cheap like
2 or 3 for under $50. I have no idea which ones netbsd
can install on without much fuss. I was thinking if
there was one that worked well, and was easy to
install netbsd on I would pick one up for an extra CLI
only computer and perhaps a low power web server.

However, I think, I just going to go with an old
Pentium 166 with 128megs of RAM, and install Netbsd on
that for the same purpose. It won't be as power
saving, but it will do the job, and give me something
that I can use to practice using Netbsd to offer a
number of server functions that will face out to the
web. It was free so it is already cheaper than the $50
I would have willingly spent on something else.

mowestusa

--- Julian Coleman <jdccoris.org.uk> wrote:

> > Is there a very cheap network terminal (used
which
> can
> > be picked up easily for under $50) upon which it
> is
> > easy to install Netbsd?
> 
> Not sure about the "under $50" part, but the
Linksys
> NSLU2 or IO-DATA Landisk
> might do what you want.  You could look at:
> 
>   http://ww
w.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/faq.html
> (NSLU2)
> 
> or:
> 
>  
>
http://www.nabble.com/how-to-install-NetBSD-lan
disk-t3275735.html
> (Landisk)
> 
> for more information on them.
> 
> J
> 
> -- 
>   My other computer also runs NetBSD    /       
> Sailing at Newbiggin
>         http://www.netbsd.org/    
   /  
> http://www.newbi
gginsailingclub.org/
> 



       
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On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 04:44:53PM -0700, mowestusa wrote:
> I see serial terminals on ebay, some rather cheap like
2 or 3 for
> under $50. I have no idea which ones netbsd can install
on without
> much fuss. I was thinking if there was one that worked
well, and was
> easy to install netbsd on I would pick one up for an
extra CLI only
> computer and perhaps a low power web server.

<a bit simplified to be easy to understand>

you don't install anything on serial terminals.  they are
what the name
suggests, serial terminals.  basically a screen with a
keyboard which
you attach via serial cable to a serial port of another
machine.  the
only software they run is very basic firmware from ROM.

</a bit simplified to be easy to understand>

-- 
-- Lubomir Sedlacik <salo{NetBSD,Xtrmntr,silcnet}.org>   --

On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Lubomir Sedlacik wrote:

> you don't install anything on serial terminals.  they
are what the name
> suggests, serial terminals.  basically a screen with a
keyboard which
> you attach via serial cable to a serial port of another
machine.  the
> only software they run is very basic firmware from
ROM.

Unless you luck upon a Digital VT103 terminal, it was a
VT100 terminal
with a backplane to support an LSI-11.  I owned one for a
number of
years.
http://web.archive.org/
web/20020910055404/http://www.conknet.com/~w_kranz/pdp11/vt1
xx.htm

On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 07:29:00PM -0600, Diana Eichert
wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2007, Lubomir Sedlacik wrote:
> >you don't install anything on serial terminals. 
they are what the
> >name suggests, serial terminals.  basically a
screen with a keyboard
> >which you attach via serial cable to a serial port
of another
> >machine.  the only software they run is very basic
firmware from ROM.
> 
> Unless you luck upon a Digital VT103 terminal, it was a
VT100 terminal
> with a backplane to support an LSI-11.  I owned one for
a number of
> years.
> http://web.archive.org/
web/20020910055404/http://www.conknet.com/~w_kranz/pdp11/vt1
xx.htm

you conveniently ommitted the part describing that the
explanation is
simplified on purpose.  also, NetBSD doesn't run on 16-bit
processors
so it's irrelevant to the OP.

regards,

-- 
-- Lubomir Sedlacik <salo{NetBSD,Xtrmntr,silcnet}.org>   --

On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 04:44:53PM -0700, mowestusa wrote:
 
> However, I think, I just going to go with an old
> Pentium 166 with 128megs of RAM, and install Netbsd on
> that for the same purpose. It won't be as power
> saving, but it will do the job, and give me something
> that I can use to practice using Netbsd to offer a
> number of server functions that will face out to the
> web. It was free so it is already cheaper than the $50
> I would have willingly spent on something else.

My IBM 486 with 32 MB ram and one drive runs at 20 watts (as
measured by
my inverter's panel when I was off the grid).  It will do
anything
except run a big browser or edit photos.  Add an LCD screen
and you
should stay low power.  The only fan is on the PSU and it
only runs as
required.

Doug.