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Networking - From a Terminal
« on: 05 November 2008, 17:38:12 »
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)

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Re: Networking - From a Terminal
« Reply #1 on: 05 November 2008, 18:17:24 »
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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Re: Networking - From a Terminal
« Reply #2 on: 05 November 2008, 18:30:19 »
Few ways to do it - VMWare etc.

If you need to have diskless terminal, you're probably looking at Citrix type solutions.
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