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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
>homework club, It would mean lots of work for me to learn....
>This however is what I wanted to do, ie run the apps etc from a
>"server" and have the 486s as little more than terminals. How do
>people go about running networks with diskless or very small HDD
>machines?
>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.

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Bernard Peek
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