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In article <1992Oct20.212041.10115@newstand.syr.edu>,
amichiel@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Allen J Michielsen) writes: 
> 
> In article <1992Oct19.151928.1@> lang@wharfin.mit.edu writes:
>>In article <BwDIBF.BII@>, ujbeer@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Jeff Beer) writes:
>>> We will be setting up a Macintosh lab and use Pathworks.  Since we are
>>> buying 20 Macs, and want to keep costs down, we would like to buy the
>>> Macs without hard disks, like we do with our Pathworks for DOS.  Unlike
>>> DOS, we know there is no remote boot, but can you boot the Mac system
>>> and network on a single floppy?
The short answer is yes is possible. Please read on
>  
>>There are two possible answers:
>>1. Yes, you could them to fit on one 1.44 MB floppy, providing you wish to
>>stay using System 6.0.x.
>>2. No, you can't if you are using System 7.0.x, the System S/W is too big
>>to fit on one floppy.

> Other possible solutions:
> 1. Write a remote boot program, which will fit on a 1.44 floppy and then
>  boot a full system over the network.
Can't be done
> 2. Buy a single system with a harddisk, and use appleshare to boot the
>  diskless systems (maybe in combination with #1).  I'm not sure if apple-
>  share (or whatever this weeks name is) supports booting.
> 
>  
What you can do is the following (I works in my Mac lab so....)
1. You boot from a floppy
2. You let other neccesarry bootup instalations reside on the remote
   volume.
3. Using appropiate software, you can use all the necessary sw. from
   remote, barring : A) System
	  	     B) Finder
		     C) Network client software
		     D) The remote loading software
It is possible...

However I wouldn't recommend it. A suggestion, try 20 used external HD's 
(20 meg should be enough). 

Jasper