ide emulation based on network block device for arbitrary OSes?

[Adam Megacz]

I'd like to run Win2k server on a diskless box.  I (unfortunately)
need to have a Win2k server box around for testing an app that we
develop on Linux but need to (occasionally) deploy on Windows.  It's
headless, so I just RDP in when I need to test stuff out.

I guess I'm interested in the diskless aspect not to save the cost of
a hard drive, but just because I like having all my hard disks in one
machine.  All my linux boxen boot off the network and mount their root
partition off of a (very, very fast) RAID-5 array.  So they all get
four-spindle speed instead of single-spindle speed.

  - a


ron minnich <rminnich at lanl.gov> writes:
> On Mon, 29 Dec 2003, Adam Megacz wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I've heard that you can use LinuxBIOS to bootload other operating
> > systems (like Windows, etc).  Is it possible for LinuxBIOS to boot the
> > device and install a block of code in memory that handles BIOS disk
> > requests using some sort of network block device protocol?
> 
> ouch. What is the motivation?
> 
> thanks
> 
> ron
> 
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