hst@ifcom.UUCP (Hartmut Streppel) (06/06/90)
There's an article on the XStation 120 in the IBM publication IBM RISC System/6000 Technology. In this article IBM says that you can boot the Xstation from other hosts after the boot software has been loaded onto it. I know that the official IBM position is: The Xtstaion can only be booted from a RS/6000 system. And there will be a possibility for AIX/PS/2 later this year. So what do you have to do to boot the XStation from another host, e.g. a PC/RT. Is it enough to load the X-Server software onto that host and port bootp? The article in the book says they are using it for booting. Or are there other peculiarities that have to be dealt with? Anybody knows or has even tested it? Please respond by email, I'll summarize if there is the need. Thanks in advance! -- Hartmut Streppel FAX: +49-89-51086-28 InterFace Computer GmbH Tel: +49-89-51086-35 Garmischer Str. 4 uucp: uunet!unido!ifcom!hst 8000 Muenchen 2, West Germany
harley@cs.utexas.edu (Harley Hahn) (06/06/90)
In article <686@ifcom.UUCP> hst@ifcom.UUCP (Hartmut Streppel) writes: > >There's an article on the XStation 120 in the IBM publication >IBM RISC System/6000 Technology. In this article IBM says that you can boot >the Xstation from other hosts after the boot software has been loaded onto it. > >So what do you have to do to boot the XStation from another host... When the RS/6000 was announced, I wrote an 83-page report that describes the entire family. This report contains the answers to many important questions, including this one. I read the same tech article and asked about this issue specifically. I will reproduce the answer below. For anyone who is interested in obtaining the report, I will post the info in a separate post. "Will the Xstation work with non-RS/6000 systems? The X-Station is a standard X-Terminal. In principle, it will work with any X-Window based system: an IBM mainframe, RT or PS/2 running AIX; a PS/2 or PC running non-IBM Unix; a Sun workstation; a DEC minicomputer -- anything. However, as we explained above, the Xstation starts by downloading its startup program from the host. This means that the Xstation can work only with hosts that are set up to transfer this program. Right now, this is available from IBM only for RS/6000's. However, a third-party vendor has promised support for the IBM RT and for selected Sun worstations and DEC Ultrix computers. Later this year, IBM will provide software for PS/2's running AIX. We expect that support for all the other major systems will be forthcoming."