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From: cliff@demon.co.uk (Cliff Stanford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: How does a diskless PC boot
Message-ID: <1991Mar31.113525.25357@demon.co.uk>
Date: 31 Mar 91 11:35:25 GMT
References: <1991Mar22.165232.23110@myab.se>
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In article <1991Mar22.165232.23110@myab.se> herder@myab.se (Jan Herder) writes:
>I wan't to know how a diskless PC is booting DOS. Is it done by booting
>from the server via proms on the network card or is anyone using DOS in prom. 

	That's certainly how Apricot do it.  Their diskless workstations
will remote boot via a Dos, Novell or Unix server.  They see one or two
"soft-disks" as drives A: and B: which are really files on the server.

>If it's done from the server how is the licence problem with DOS solved?

	MsDos is shipped with every machine.  Thus no licensing
problems.
		Cliff.

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