Booting several diskless clients off a network drive in win2k?

[BigRed]

Anyway it can be done? I want to run F@H on some rigs that dont have hdds with a slow rig as a server to the faster ones. AZN said it might be able to be done.
Someone must know how to do this.

[turd]

This what you want?

http://www.ntfaq.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=20257

[BigRed]

How would i run F@H on those computers though?

[turd]

Im not sure how that would work. You could just run a terminal to your server, which would load from your ram once booted into. However wouldnt the F@H be in effect running from the server using the same resources anyways, so you would get the same use as running multiple instances? Im not sure if you could run F@H from the ram of each cliient if thats what you are getting at.

Here is a link to run a linux terminal server, check it out.

http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue68/swieskowski.html

[BigRed]

Originally posted by turd
Im not sure how that would work. You could just run a terminal to your server, which would load from your ram once booted into. However wouldnt the F@H be in effect running from the server using the same resources anyways, so you would get the same use as running multiple instances? Im not sure if you could run F@H from the ram of each cliient if thats what you are getting at.

Here is a link to run a linux terminal server, check it out.

http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue68/swieskowski.html
Dont have linux, wouldnt even know how to use it.
I just want to be able to have windows 2k boot from a remote hard drive then I would make a ramdrive to install F@H onto the local machine.
What im getting at is I have no hard drives left but lots of folding boxes, lol. Looking for a cheap way to get them running (with using what i have, no linux).

[Gandalf]

Red, Gator wrote up instrucions for doing this! :)

I'll try to dig up the link in the Folding section...

[BigRed]

Originally posted by Gandalf
Red, Gator wrote up instrucions for doing this! :)

I'll try to dig up the link in the Folding section...
No, that was for using overfoldix (linux). I already saw it.
Im just about to break down and buy a bunch of smallish hard drives from compgeeks.

[Gandalf]

Originally posted by BigRed

No, that was for using overfoldix (linux). I already saw it.
Im just about to break down and buy a bunch of smallish hard drives from compgeeks.

Woops, my mistake! :D

[turd]

Here these are some links that may help you, dig around and some of this is also for windows, good luck

http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/

http://diet-pc.sourceforge.net/windows/etherboot-w2k.html

http://rom-o-matic.net/

[BigRed]

Originally posted by turd
Here these are some links that may help you, dig around and some of this is also for windows, good luck

http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/

http://diet-pc.sourceforge.net/windows/etherboot-w2k.html

http://rom-o-matic.net/
Those exact links turned up on my google search. The thing I need is only in win2k advanced server. I dont feel like giving M$ $1000. It would be cheaper to buy hard drives :p
Which im going to go do. Thanks for help anyway.