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Sindi wrote:

see previous in thread for details

You can access the hardware (USB port, floppy drive, etc.) on the server 
(desktop) computer from a vt (terminal) on the client (laptop) that is 
connected to the server (via X or dropbear or a telnet demon), and the 
local hardware from another vt.

To connect with X to a server with keyboard that functions in DOS but not 
linux, since you need to export $DISPLAY from server before starting X on 
client:

Edit rc (hard drive in another computer - can one edit with ltools?)

Method 1

Add to end of serrver rc a line to export $DISPLAY to client (see below)
First boot the client and run startxt (in my case 'exec Xfbdev -ac'), then 
second boot the server

Method 2

Add to server rc the line dropbear.

Boot both computers in either order, connect in console mode with dbclient 
in one vt and startxt on the laptop on another vt in either order, use the 
first vt (connected to server) to export DISPLAY to the client.  You are 
now connected to server on two vts.

(Or use telnet and a telnet daemon instead of dropbear.  See archives).

According to the BL archives you can

export DISPLAY=192.168.0.2:0
icewm &
(or rxvt & - maybe even icewm & rxvt &)

or

export DISPLAY="192.168.0.2" icewm

or

export DISPLAY=192.168.0.2:0 /root/.xinitrc
(in case .xinitrc has more than just icewm in it)

Steven, can you explain the purposes and meaning of
-ac
:0
" " around the IP number

Is the client running only X and the server icewm and rxvt?

Sindi Keesan