Windows on diskless PC?

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1 total messages Started by allebrandi Thu, 28 Jan 1993 04:18

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Author: allebrandi
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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