[AktiviX] laptop with no hard-disc and remote access

[max]

Hi Josh,

knoppix (run-off-a-cd-distro) lets you run a terminal server - the main 
question would be saving what you're writing - where would you save it to if 
you didn't have a hard drive?

you could have a look at http://seedsforchange.org.uk/res/term.html - this 
tells you how to do a terminal server / client set up that should work in the 
situation you outline...

max


On Saturday 07 Feb 2004 7:00 pm, Josh Robinson wrote:
> (sorry if this comes twice: i got a failure message last time)
>
> an interesting problem: solutions (creative or otherwise) welcome.
>
> i have a 3-year-old Toshiba Satellite, which was running RedHat, but teh
> hard drive crashed. i'm not keen on finding out how much it would cost to
> get that fixed.
>
> however, i have a desktop running debian, which is always on (i mean, they
> crash so often!!) and permanently networked.
>
> would it be possible to run a CD-version of some sort of GNU-linux on the
> laptop, connect to the university ethernet (the laptop has a network
> card), and do something along the lines of running programs on my desktop,
> but remotely? (this probably isn't very well-worded, as i don't know quite
> what it is i want to do!)
>
> basically, the aim is to be able to take the laptop into various libraries
> (network access is available in all of them, and i have my own IP address
> which i can use), and then use OOo writer (and perhaps Firebird and a
> mail-client). is this possible without a functioning hard-drive?
>
> and if so, which CD-based distro would be any good?
>
> thanks,
>
> josh
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