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From: DOCTOR@MTUS5.BITNET (Tony Dal Santo)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.nfs
Subject: Re: (PC) NFS on floppy-only PC's
Message-ID: <90320.163418DOCTOR@MTUS5.BITNET>
Date: 16 Nov 90 21:34:17 GMT
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Organization: Computing Technology Services, Michigan Technological Univ.
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Almost all of our PCs in the lab are without hardrives.  We have some ancient
4.77, 2 Floppy drive IBM PCs.  It works ok.  Things get a little tight trying
to fit everyting in 360k, but you can do it without too much difficulty.
You may have a problem with your boot disk disappearing.  The problem is not
loosing the 10 cent disk, but loosing the Sun serial number on the disk.
This means you have keep track of which PCs had which serial numbers.  There
are a few ways to get around this though.

I have heard a few people say they are booting their PCs without disk.  I
have not seen a public domain offering to do this.

                                                         Tony Dal Santo
                                                         tony@mtu.edu