John W. Colby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Fri Feb 11 06:33:54 CST 2005
Well the whole point is to buy a very low cost MB with everything on it - video, usb, serial, hard disk controller, net, etc. Nothing is going to change. The lowest cost CD and hard drive I can find taken together run about $70-$80, hard drive by itself about $45-$50. All the other components taken together (MB / Athlon64 CPU / 512 mb RAM / Case) run about $280. So the hard disk by itself makes up some 16% of the system, not to mention setting it all up etc. If I could set it all up then save the image to a LAN location, then have 1 or 100 systems use that boot image... I could swear that large companies do this. And I know for a fact that ALL motherboards these days have a "boot from LAN" option built into the BIOS. There is an entire standard designed to allow this. It appears that no one here knows how to do it, I know I don't, and I haven't found anything (free) on the web to allow it for Windows, though I have for Linux. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Contribute your unused CPU cycles to a good cause: http://folding.stanford.edu/ -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gustav Brock Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 6:22 AM To: accessd at databaseadvisors.com Subject: Re: [AccessD] Network booting Windows XP Hi John This sounds what you were asking for. But I wonder if it is what you want; loading an image via a LAN must last "forever" and hardware must match the image exactly. /gustav >>> dejpolsys at hotmail.com 11-02-2005 04:57:46 >>> http://www.vci.com/downloads/files/Ardence_ThinClient.pdf William Hindman -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com