[plug] Re: w98 remote boot was: plex86 + bochs

[Scott Middleton]

Actually looking at it its not that good.
Type "diskless win98" in google and see what comes up. There are a
couple of interesting ones.

On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 11:47, Chris Caston wrote:
    Looks like a cool hack but I found it quite confusing.
    
    This just actually runs the software from a Samba share right?
    
    regards,
    
    Chris
    
    
    On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 11:22, Scott Middleton wrote:
    > I couldn't find the original doc i was talking about but i found this:
    > http://www.videoshaker.com/
    > 
    > On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 11:00, Chris Caston wrote:
    > 
    >     On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 10:58, Scott Middleton wrote:
    >     > On a similar side note i saw a howto somewhere on LTSP where a guy
    >     > managed to Remote Boot win98. Might be of interest?
    >     >
    >     
    >     Could be. What did he use? 
    >      
    >     > On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 10:21, Chris Caston wrote:
    >     >     On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 10:06, Scott Middleton wrote:
    >     >     > On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 23:14, Chris Caston wrote:
    >     >     >     On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 23:07, Jason H. Smith wrote:
    >     >     >     
    >     >     >     > If you have any luck with the hybrid, please let me/us know!
    >     >     >     >
    >     >     >     
    >     >     >     Will do. It doesn't seem like I'm getting far at the moment though. If I
    >     >     >     get it working I eventually plan to try running it under LTSP.
    >     >     > 
    >     >     > If its a commercial venture and money isn't important, 
    >     >     
    >     >     Well. I'm going to be setup up my bro's PPC machine as a LTSP client and
    >     >     serve apps to him from a LTSP server.
    >     >     
    >     >     He's needs to run some win32 apps for a tafe course he is studying.
    >     >     
    >     >     I can't afford win4lin (so in this situation money is important) nor do
    >     >     I want to pirate it.  
    >     >     
    >     >     One idea I am playing with though is to build new Linux machines for
    >     >     people that currently have old Win95/98 machines.
    >     >     
    >     >     >From there I could create an image of their existing machine using
    >     >     bximage either directly from their drive (if it supports that) or just
    >     >     run a partimage boot disk inside of bochs.
    >     >     
    >     >     I think that we need an OpenSource replacement for win4lin I am sickened
    >     >     at the idea that if you want (make that have no choice) to run win32
    >     >     apps on Linux you need to buy software. 
    >     >     
    >     >     I'm going to avoid (if possible) a discussion about WINE.
    >     >     
    >     >     
    >     >      
    >     >     Win4Lin Server is
    >     >     > about a 5 minute setup. If you ask netraverse nicely they will give you
    >     >     > a 30 day evaluation license. I used that with LTSP very successfully for
    >     >     > quite a while.
    >     >     >
    >     >     
    >     >     I would have tried it already if the download was trial was on their
    >     >     site.
    >     >     
    >     >     >     
    >     >     >     I like sure like to see that "proof of concept tarball"
    >     >     >     
    >     >     >     regards,
    >     >     >     
    >     >     >     Chris Caston 
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    > Scott Middleton
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