[AccessD] Network booting Windows XP

Hi John

All newer machines for business use can boot from LAN.
But the purpose nowadays is to boot dos or a tiny Linux, read in the
image to the harddisk and reboot. From then on the machine boots from
its harddisk.

/gustav

>>> jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com 11-02-2005 13:33:54 >>>
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 

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-----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