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Article #1250Windows on diskless PC?
From: allebrandi
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:18
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:18
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My PC at work is for all intents and purposes a diskless machine. The machine is connected to our Local Area Network and gets everything from the file server. (It boots from the file server, it loads DOS and Windows from the file server, all of my files are stored on the file server.) Basically nothing is on the local hard drive. I am running Windows in 386 Enhanced mode, the only thing that I know of that is on the local hard drive is the swap file used for virtual memory. So I had a thought.... What if I put 32Mb of RAM in my machine and allocated it as follows: 1Mb Conventional (DOS) memory 2Mb Smartdrive cache 20Mb RAM disk 9Mb XMS for Windows ---- ------ 32Mb Total I would then configure Windows to use a temporary swap file located on the RAM disk. Will this work? Could I then completely remove the hard drive? Comments? Thanks! --- Tom Tom Allebrandi Allebrandi@Ipact.Com TA Software Systems (alternate: Allebrandi@Inland.Com)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!peora!gator!ipact!allebrandi From: allebrandi@ipact.com Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup Subject: Windows on diskless PC? Message-ID: <1993Jan27.231843.206@ipact.com> Date: 27 Jan 93 23:18:43 CDT Organization: IPACT, Valparaiso IN Lines: 32