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2. Introduction

This is an installation kit for linux based X terminal.

This kit use a RedHat cdrom (any from 5.2 to 7.0) and install a set of packages in /xterminals/root. It installs around 90 megs of stuff. There are sections at the end of this document for the differences between the various RedHat version, related to the X terminals kit.

All X terminals are sharing this /xterminals/root. Further, this is read-only. No X terminal needs to write there, even when configuring a new terminal.

This kit may be installed on almost any distribution that can run the rpm command. The fact that the X terminal will run some parts of redhat does not affect the operation of the server itself. This kit has been installed on variosu distributions including SuSE and Mandrake. Lately we have done seveval installation using a RedHat 6.2 CD to install on a Mandrake 7.2 server.


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