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Jonathan Burishkin | 24 Apr 2012 22:01
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Best way to boot into tn5250 full screen

I need to set up some tn5250 terminals at work; I prefer them to boot
straight into the green screen, no gui. What linux distro and configuration
is best for this?

I have been using Lubuntu 11.10 32bit with IBM iSeriesAccess and have some
lost connection issues with the software. I would like to see how tn5250
works.
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Porterfield, Sean | 24 Apr 2012 22:23

Re: Best way to boot into tn5250 full screen

I played with something similar in 2003, most likely based on http://www.scottklement.com/picobsd/

The trick with no GUI is getting the keys mapped properly.  How you do that will vary by what OS you're running. 
It's been too long for me to remember, but I think there is a man page, HOWTO, or README that explains it.
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I need to set up some tn5250 terminals at work; I prefer them to boot straight into the green screen, no gui.
What linux distro and configuration is best for this?

I have been using Lubuntu 11.10 32bit with IBM iSeriesAccess and have some lost connection issues with the
software. I would like to see how tn5250 works.

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Carey Evans | 24 Apr 2012 22:39
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Re: Best way to boot into tn5250 full screen

On 25 April 2012 08:23, Porterfield, Sean <
SPorterfield@...> wrote:

> The trick with no GUI is getting the keys mapped properly.  How you do
> that will vary by what OS you're running.  It's been too long for me to
> remember, but I think there is a man page, HOWTO, or README that explains
> it.
>

You're probably thinking of http://www.chowhouse.com/~james/tn5250-HOWTO.pdf
.

It can also be tricky getting the program to start automatically with the
right TTY settings without a login. We had a modified getty line in
/etc/inittab that started a shell script, that statred login with the right
options, that started tn5250 with the right options. We probably still have
the whole thing saved somewhere.
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fschnittke | 24 Apr 2012 22:59

Re: Best way to boot into tn5250 full screen

 Hi:

 We replaced all of our 3477 Terminals last year with homegrown 
 ThinClients and it's been working great. Many thanks to Scott and 
 others.

 I know you said you didn't want a gui, but our ThinClients use a gui 
 (X) and boot right into a green screen at startup, just like a terminal, 
 except it takes a little longer.

 Here's what we used:

 Hardware: ASUS EB1007 eeeBox PC bolted onto the back of a 4:3 
 FlatScreen Monitor
 OS: FreeBSD B1 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0
 5250 Software: tn5250 0.17.4 (xt5250)
 X Server: X.Org X Server 1.7.7

 Everything is installed on a 4Gb Compact Flash card, and the root of 
 the OS is read only. Things like /tmp and /var, are loaded as memory 
 drives. We don't have to worry about the cards getting burnt out from 
 too many writes, and we don't have to worry about the abuse the software 
 might take out on the floor. Users can power it off and on, and we don't 
 have to worry about corruption.

 We did have to do a fair bit of customizing, (both to X and 
 tn5250/xt5250) but we've got something that works great.

 Regards,
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John Chambers | 1 May 2012 15:56

Re: Best way to boot into tn5250 full screen

I don't know what is "best" but I have some old "low resource" machines
running tinycore linux, booting straight to green.
Once you figure out persistance, just put:
tty1::respawn:/sbin/getty -nl /usr/local/bin/as400 38400 tty1
Into inittab, where as400 is a script that starts tn5250, pointing to
our AS400.

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I need to set up some tn5250 terminals at work; I prefer them to boot
straight into the green screen, no gui. What linux distro and
configuration is best for this?

I have been using Lubuntu 11.10 32bit with IBM iSeriesAccess and have
some lost connection issues with the software. I would like to see how
tn5250 works.
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