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Article #67Re: Networked PC (without hard disc)
From: Eric A Rasmussen
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 1990 07:23
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 1990 07:23
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In article <1990Mar7.214649.17250@me.toronto.edu> sun@me.utoronto.ca (Andy Sun Anu-guest) writes: >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. In our case (Novell on an IBM PC) a 360k boot disk is easily sufficient. >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) A very good idea. If it wasn't so 2am, I might have suggested the same thing. _ _ +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+ |_ ,_ . _ |_} _ _ ,_ _ _ _ _ ,_ | ear@wpi.wpi.edu | |_ | | |_ | \ |_\ _> | | | |_| _> _> |_' | | | ear%wpi@wpi.edu | --< A real engineer never reads the instructions first! >-- +-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-+
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!psuvax1!husc6!m2c!wpi!ear From: ear@wpi.wpi.edu (Eric A Rasmussen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer Subject: Re: Networked PC (without hard disc) Message-ID: <9528@wpi.wpi.edu> Date: 9 Mar 90 07:23:10 GMT References: <1990Mar6.180320.28421@axion.bt.co.uk> <1990Mar7.214649.17250@me.toronto.edu> Reply-To: ear@wpi.wpi.edu (Eric A Rasmussen) Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester ,MA Lines: 20