Can I boot disklessly over my home network?

[Airdawg10]

I have two computers up and running on my home network both running XP Pro. I have remote desktop set up and it works great. Here's what I want to see happen.

I have a third computer ready to go, with no HD. Is there a way to set up my three computers so one of them acts as a server and the other two, or maybe just the one without the HD, boots remotely from that computer and logs onto XP remotely similar to how remote desktop works? Remote Desktop just requires that XP be up and running and that doesn't work well with no HDD :-D

Let me know if anyone knows of a way to do this!

thanks...

 

[bcastner]

There is no thin client for XP.
Moreover, your EULA does not make this a permitted use.

 

[rhk4360]

wow i guess I wasn't patient or somethin because now it works 1000 thanks to you guys!!!!!
Ryan Kao

 

[linney]

If you haven't got a hard drive buy one. If you want to experiment you could see what you can do with BartPE which is a mini XP that runs just from CD and has some networking ability. I have never used it without a hard drive in a machine but in theory it might work.

You can try and see if you are able to make use of BartPE (a mini XP self contained on a bootable CD and run from CD) which includes some networking access.

http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/