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Article #82Re: networking newbie cry for help
From: Steve Parry
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 00:00
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1998 00:00
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On Fri, 20 Nov 1998 07:22:12 +0000, Bernard Peek <Bernard@shrdlu.com> wrote: >In article <36540db5.1928559@news.demon.co.uk>, Steve Parry ><spug@intlog.demon.co.uk> writes > > >>Thanks, Tom. I am not sure that Linux/unix is the right OS for a snip >>I bought some machines from auction not long ago they had 50 MB HDDs, >>and had been networked together, running windows. How could they have >>run say MS Office on this kit? > >I worked on a site that ran DOS and Office 3 on diskless workstations. >They had no hard disk at all and the floppies were disabled by software. > >I'm not sure whether Microsoft's Terminal Server system would run with >only 50Mb of storage on the client. My understanding is that it requires >a working Windows 95 installation on every client. I don't know whether >that's possible in 50Mb. thanks Bernard, and everyone who responded, I have got W95 on the machines now (just two of them) and all is well (sort of). See new thread below for more hopeless newbie Q's, Thanks again, -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- XXXXXXXXXX-------Sparrow (Spug) in London UK.--------XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX xxxxxxxxxx---Remove "banspam" from address to reply----xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10869b,ef2ce2bba74574db X-Google-Attributes: gid10869b,public X-Google-Thread: 1036bc,ef2ce2bba74574db X-Google-Attributes: gid1036bc,public From: spug@intlog.demon.co.uk (Steve Parry) Subject: Re: networking newbie cry for help Date: 1998/11/23 Message-ID: <3659d787.1242524@news.demon.co.uk> X-Deja-AN: 414947663 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NNTP-Posting-Host: intlog.demon.co.uk:158.152.199.217 References: <364afb35.2242105@news.demon.co.uk> <364ca309.53967340@adhocntserver> <dL5bgfAWQJU2EwSx@dbqa.demon.co.uk> <36540db5.1928559@news.demon.co.uk> <tb1nyGAkiRV2Ewdo@shrdlu.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 911859533 nnrp-07:28012 NO-IDENT intlog.demon.co.uk:158.152.199.217 Organization: Pisces MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: spug@intlog.demon.co.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.networking,demon.tech.pc