Re: Diskless Windows 98 Nodes

[Ian Lowe]

Looking Good Tony :D

I have tried out PXE booting Win98 in the past, with little success :( glad
to see youironed out the problems. Personally, I would think first off the
bat would be a media player (xpl enriched of course) that would support an
environment like Phil Harris' (ripped DVDs on a central server, using
daemon
tools to automount the correct one)

as well as that, My HTPC would be a really sweet front end for this.

Ian.

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Subject: [ukha_xpl] Diskless Windows 98 Nodes


> Hi all,
>
> Anyone interested in Diskless win98 nodes for HA?
>
> Here's some pictures of one I have running at the moment
> <a href="http://www.xplhal.com/xpl_diskless.htm";>http://www.xplhal.com/xpl_diskless.htm</a>
>
> What I'm looking for is suggestions for use/applications, please.
>
> Here's a few of my thoughts
> Backup xPLHal controller
> Add a 4/8 port serial card for xPL serial node
> MP3/Video player
> Stream Tivo recordings to tv's
> Webcam server
>
> I'm going to add a wirless nic to the first one and place it in the
garage,
> to use as a wireless mp3 player and xPL serial node for my weather
station.
>
> For those interested in the technical aspect it works like this,
> Boot a special linux kernel via PXE
> The kernel boots a compressed dos floppy image that logs onto the
network
> and grabs a compressed windows 98 image
> And then the windows 98 image is booted up
>
> All this runs in memory only (using a ramdrive, so it run's fast)
> I havent tried to cut down win98 and have installed .net framework etc
so
my
> image is big
> Mine is currently a 218mb (physical) image, with 100mb of free space
for
> installing more stuff.
> Most stuff (e.g. xpl app's) can be installed on a network share
>
> Boot time from switch on to desktop is about a minute (but you can
easily
> reduce this with a smaller image).
>
> My memory is 512mb, with 64mb for video, 230mb for ramdisk and
remainder
as
> memory for win98.
>
> A how-to will be published as soon as I can find the time to write it
and
> check it.
>
> Oh, and everything (except your hardware and win98 licence(s)) is free
-
> providing you have a capable dhcp server.
>
> Regards
> Tony
>
>
>
>
>
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