Re: How does a diskless PC boot

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From: Markus Strand
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1991 19:45

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In article <1991Mar22.165232.23110@myab.se> herder@myab.se (Jan Herder) writes:
>I wan't to know how a diskless PC is booting DOS. Is it done by booting
>from the server via proms on the network card or is anyone using DOS in prom. 
>If it's done from the server how is the licence problem with DOS solved?

They boot from proms on the network card. DOS is actually not so big.

If they would use a DOS on the server, what would they do if the
server is runnig U*IX or some other OS? 

Markus Strand
mstr@vipunen.hut.fi

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From: mstr@vipunen.hut.fi (Markus Strand)
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