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From: barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: VAXStation 2000  -->  X Terminal
Message-ID: <7571@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 14 Feb 91 15:15:18 GMT
References: <1991Feb11.200242.29515@inel.gov> <1991Feb12.113004.141@tfl.dk> <1991Feb13.144405.5323@rodan.acs.syr.edu>
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>>In article <1991Feb11.200242.29515@inel.gov>, jfp@INEL.GOV (Jeff Pack) writes:
>>> Has anyone reconfigured a VAXStation 2000 to be strictly an X Terminal?
>>> I have seen people doing similar things to Sun 3/50's and assorted
>>> boat anchors....

	I did this with all our VS2000's.  I compiled X11R4 on our VAX 8530,
which is binary-compatible with the VS2000's.  First, I put the entire X11R4
binary hierarchy into a big tar file, which is kept on the VAX.  Then I
wiped the VS2000 disks clean and used setld/ris to install a minimal OS on
the disks.  Finally, I used rsh and tar to transfer the X binaries to 
the VS2000's.  It is a bit of a hassle, but it works.
	(I tried using setld/ris to download X11R4 to the VS2000's, but
ran into problems.  This is Ultrix 2.0, which was probably the cause
of these problems....)

                                                        Dan

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