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booting from a Netork of Windows 9x
Name: Dave Fasanmi Date: August 20, 2002 at 03:22:17 Pacific
Comment:
I have 20 pc's with no Hdd in them I want them to boot from my notebook that has an hard disk of 20GB Capacitity install with windows 98se and will like to run the internet on each of the systems
Name: Sylvain Mathieu Date: August 20, 2002 at 05:45:07 Pacific
Reply:
First you need a bootabble system. either a bootrom on you network card or a floopy disk that would boot with your network driver that would define acces to your network path to your windows.
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Response Number 2
Name: Don Date: August 20, 2002 at 07:55:46 Pacific
Reply:
in all honesty Windows98 is not the OS you would want to do this with....it was never intended to be a network OS...it works, but others work better...such as Linux, or even Windows2000
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