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- Path: sparky!uunet!peora!gator!ipact!allebrandi
- From: allebrandi@ipact.com
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.setup
- Subject: Windows on diskless PC?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.231843.206@ipact.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 23:18:43 CDT
- Organization: IPACT, Valparaiso IN
- Lines: 32
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- My PC at work is for all intents and purposes a diskless machine. The
- machine is connected to our Local Area Network and gets everything
- from the file server. (It boots from the file server, it loads DOS
- and Windows from the file server, all of my files are stored on the
- file server.) Basically nothing is on the local hard drive.
-
- I am running Windows in 386 Enhanced mode, the only thing that I know of
- that is on the local hard drive is the swap file used for virtual memory.
-
- So I had a thought....
-
- What if I put 32Mb of RAM in my machine and allocated it as follows:
-
- 1Mb Conventional (DOS) memory
- 2Mb Smartdrive cache
- 20Mb RAM disk
- 9Mb XMS for Windows
- ---- ------
- 32Mb Total
-
- I would then configure Windows to use a temporary swap file located on
- the RAM disk.
-
- Will this work? Could I then completely remove the hard drive?
-
- Comments?
-
- Thanks!
-
- --- Tom
- Tom Allebrandi Allebrandi@Ipact.Com
- TA Software Systems (alternate: Allebrandi@Inland.Com)
-