DOS ain't dead - Diskless DOS via PXE (netboot)

Diskless DOS via PXE (netboot) - need help (Users)

posted by glennmcc , North Jackson, Ohio (USA), 25.06.2014, 04:36

> > Why on earth would you want a diskless Disk Operating System ??? ;-)
>
> It's idiot proof, back in days on Czech tech. university, that I studied,
> there was tens of diskless computers connected to Internet for students in
> 2 computer classrooms.
> There was a choice to boot Win98 or Linux via PXE. After login you can
> access your personal network drive (huh, just only ~20MB) and after logout
> the computer rebooted in clean state. Also few computers had Iomega 100 ZIP
> drive where I could download bigger files.

Sorry... I should have been more plain... that post was made in jest
and it was purely a rhetorical question. ;-)

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