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We too had tried the suggested steps above by ke4nt1 and failed.  Was your command apt-get install xwindows? I just tried that on FC3 box and it came back as application not found.


Could you share the exact commands so that I can hand the instructions off to one of my assistants? Thanks!

When this works, DSL will certainly rock the LTSP and low-end client world! I regularly turn away PI donations because I had so much trouble with them playing nice with X! Many thanks to all!

Dennis

Well, fedora does not use Debian's packaging tool, apt. It uses RPM's instead.

With Debian, you just do "apt-get install x-window-system", but this can be dangerous with DSL, so just use the XFree86.dsl from the testing area of the repository. Remember that it is not a "click-n-play" extension.

Follow the instructions in the info file.

As for rpm based distro, I don't use/like them, so I'm really not any help. Sorry.

-J.P.

Thanks for the quick reply!
Two things
first
apt-get works for Redhat... I've been using it for years :)

second
We did try the XFree86.dsl, and the instructions offered initially,  but it didn't fly  :(

I'm looking for a distro that is small, fast and easy to install for really old machines so that I can turn them into clients on K12LTSP networks ... schools are spending $100M dollars on computers for no good reason... ergo the interest in quick client creator...

DSL has most of what I'm looking for! I want to give a demo of a client creation to a group of teachers in March... right now SuSE has the best one click installer but I'd really like to use DSL as it is SO fast! :)


Many many thanks to any further assistance into getting DSL to play nice with LTSP!

thanks!
Dennis

as I explained in my previous post it was a fluke I followed the steps ofered at the begining of the thread but when I tried X-broadcast  it appeard that it was going to loggin but it came back with an error in the config files (I forgot which one)  so I tried apt-get install X-window-system and answered the questions for my video chipset and voila it happend (neomagic on a thinkpad 380) .
I have restarted the server a couple of times downloaded more software from myDSL ,started the tinyX server and no problems the only thing I have noticed is some broken dependencies but I think I can repair them or work around them ,

running dsl as a thinterminal has its problems for instance because of the ext2 filesystem it is prompt to fail if a user just turns the machine off we need a way to change ext2 to ext3. to avoide this kind of problems.
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