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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Mr Skrunts on 05 November 2008, 17:38:12
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http://www.omegaowners.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1225869049/15#15
Just posted in the thread above.
It got me thinging about the Colledge Network years ago. We sat at a terminal and had the options to boot to.
Dos 3
Dos 5
Dos 6.2
Windows 3.0
Windows 3.11
Plus loads of others.
If I am correct then these machine did not have hard drives in but booted from the Dumb Terminal.
Just out of pure interest I fancy setting something up in the house purely on a learning thing.
How do I go about it.
Would like to try and utilise as many systems as possible, including Win 2000, XP Pro, Vista, Win 3.11 and if it's possible then add a Linux system (bought the Redhat 7.5 Years ago but never installed it - so know nothing at all about it)
TIA. :y
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LAN Boot Server is what you need! the only one of these i have ever played with was an IBM OS/II server running windows 3.11 RM 486 25SX dumb terminals (was an old school network)
used BNC type network but i notice my toughbook can LAN boot so i assume it can still be done!
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Few ways to do it - VMWare etc.
If you need to have diskless terminal, you're probably looking at Citrix type solutions.