[AccessD] Network booting Windows XP

Googled "windows boot from LAN" and came up with these possibilities

http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/
http://www.qualystem.com/en/howtobuy.html
http://straylight.cso.niu.edu/win95/win95boo.htm

Lambert


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [SMTP:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John W. Colby
> Sent:	Friday, February 11, 2005 7:34 AM
> To:	'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'
> Subject:	RE: [AccessD] Network booting Windows XP
> 
> 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
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