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In article <1990Mar7.214649.17250@me.toronto.edu> sun@me.utoronto.ca (Andy Sun Anu-guest) writes:
>In article <1990Mar6.180320.28421@axion.bt.co.uk> iwarner@axion.bt.co.uk writes:
>>
>>	I am trying out a PC configuration whereby the PC has no hard disc,
>>but gets all of its stuff from a networked disc. The floppy drive is used to
>>boot up MS-DOS & PC-NFS initially, and then (it is hoped), the network drive(s)
>>should take over. I am using Sun PC-NFS for this purpose - this allows the
>>PC to be served by Unix NFS servers.
>>
>
>I have seen similar setup, where a PC has a Ethernet card and running SUN 
>PC-NFS and connects to a SUN 3/60 workstation. That machine has a hard disk
>but I don't see why you cannot do it with a floppy. You better make sure 
>that your have a 1.2 MB or 1.44 MB floppy to house all the device drivers
>and NFS programs though.
>
>>	If anybody has tried a similar thing, I'd appreciate tales of woe, or
>>words of wisdom, etc.
>>
>>	I also have encountered one problem: when exiting from MicroSoft Word,
>>the beast insists on reading COMMAND.COM from the floppy drive (A:) from whence
>>it was booted. I need to tell it to look on the network drive, but NOT when
>>first booting up. When powering up command.com, autoexec & config.sys are
>>all read from a system floppy. This also contains code to boot up & log in to
>>PC-NFS. Once this has been done, all interaction should be with the networked
>>drives.
>
>If you type 'set' in DOS, you will see an entry called COMSPEC=A:\COMMAND.COM
>in your case. COMSPEC specifies which drive you boot up your machine from.
>At the end of your autoexec.bat, if you put a line
>
>	set comspec=e:\command.com (or whatever the network drive letter is)
>
>I think MS Word will use that instead.
>
>>
>>	Any help or advice appreciated.
>>
>>	Ivan Warner
>>	British Telecom Research Labs
>>	Martlesham Heath
>>	Ipswich
>>	UK
>
>Andy
>-- 

The system that we are using allows us to network PC's without hardrives to
our network servers via PC-NFS.  Each PC has a copy of PC-NFS assigned to it.
Once booted, the PC looks to the "I:" drive (our network drive) for all of the
software.  This system of doing things works out fine for PC's with or without
hard drives.

Glenn


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