Re: Re: Diskless Homeseer server

["Kevin Ellis" <kevin@xxxxxxx>]

Its more a power thing, Ruuning so many hungry PC's I wanted to be able to
get the Homeseer one running the absolute minimum power.

----- Original Message -----
From: "mark_harrison_uk2" <mph@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 3:54 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: Diskless Homeseer server


> Erm...
>
> Booting Win9x from CF is generally regarded as a fairly poor idea,
> because of the way that Windows constantly makes modifications to
> system files and handles virtual memory management.
>
> CFs don't stand up well to this.
>
> I'm afraid that this is one area where Linux really does score, but
> that rules out Homeseer :-(
>
> If the lack of hard disk is an issue, I'm sure I've got an old one I
> can dig out for you.... if SILENCE is the issue, then Windows and
> silence aren't snap :-(
>
> M.
>
>
> --- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Ian  Willoughby" <ian@i...>
wrote:
> > Not sure you could do exactly that but you could boot from a
> compact flash card such as those sold by linitx at
> http://linitx.com/products/compact_flash_ide_adapter/.
A 512Mb CF
> card would be more than big emough.
> >
> > R's
> > Ian
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kevin Ellis [mailto:kevin@xxxxxxx...]
> > Sent: Fri 26/09/2003 12:49
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Cc:
> > Subject: [ukha_d] Diskless Homeseer server
> >
> >
> >
> > I have decided to finally sort out some of my machines, and
> have decieded to reuse some old hardware to build a dedicated
> Homeseer server.
> >
> > I would like to run Win 98 in a Ramdisk so the system could
> boot from CD and run.
> >
> > Has anyone contemplated or even done this ? I would back up
> config files to a network share so change of config is not an issue.
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Kevin
> >
> >
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