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From: ear@wpi.wpi.edu (Eric A Rasmussen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: Networked PC (without hard disc)
Message-ID: <9528@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 9 Mar 90 07:23:10 GMT
References: <1990Mar6.180320.28421@axion.bt.co.uk> <1990Mar7.214649.17250@me.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: ear@wpi.wpi.edu (Eric A Rasmussen)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester ,MA
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In article <1990Mar7.214649.17250@me.toronto.edu> sun@me.utoronto.ca (Andy Sun Anu-guest) writes:
>I have seen similar setup, where a PC has a Ethernet card and running SUN 
>PC-NFS and connects to a SUN 3/60 workstation. That machine has a hard disk
>but I don't see why you cannot do it with a floppy. You better make sure 
>that your have a 1.2 MB or 1.44 MB floppy to house all the device drivers
>and NFS programs though.

In our case (Novell on an IBM PC) a 360k boot disk is easily sufficient.

>If you type 'set' in DOS, you will see an entry called COMSPEC=A:\COMMAND.COM
>in your case. COMSPEC specifies which drive you boot up your machine from.
>At the end of your autoexec.bat, if you put a line
>
>	set comspec=e:\command.com (or whatever the network drive letter is)

A very good idea.  If it wasn't so 2am, I might have suggested the same thing.
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