Diskless on Windows?

[frostie]

I am thinking about setting up my extra mobo and duron 850 to do some extra crunching.
I could get W2K onto this computer and the try to setup the other one with absolutely nothing! Just network boot and start crunching. i've read that this can be done under linux using a win2k server as host. anyway i can use windoze on the diskless system? I cannot setup linux networking on the server because my internet connection runs thru a USB DSL modem.

Basically what I am saying is this :
Win2k on main machine as server
Win9x or 2k on diskless workstation just to crunch some extra WU's

Will this work? Could someone point me to some info? All the info I've seen is for setting up linux as the diskless workstation.

Thanks

 

[bot2600]

It would be tricky, but you should be able to boot windows diskless if you assign a shared directory on the server to be the diskless boxes hard drive. The cat5 would then in essence be a LONG IDE cable You would want to have enough ram in the diskless box to disable virtual memory though, it would bring the machine to its KNEES to be accessing a swap file back and forth over the lan.

Bot

 

[frostie]

I got 512MB of SDRAM lying around. That should be enough.
This might sound stupid but I'm going to ask this. I will need Win2K Server to be a server?? Or will Win2K Pro do?
Any special booting sequence for the diskless box? I can set aside a partition on this box that I am not using to be the diskless box's HD. I would basically have to install a minimal W98 on that partition right? That's my understanding so far.

Thanks

 

[Sukhoi]

Do you have a floppy on the Duron 850 MHz? If you don't you're going to need to burn a EEPROM for the NIC or something. :Q