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2. Diskless Computer for Windows 95/NT !!

Since Microsoft Windows 95/NT DOES NOT support diskless nodes, there is a intelligent work-around to overcome this short coming. Microsoft corporation will be surprised !! Use the VMWare BIOS software with Linux which can host the Windows 95/98/NT. Linux will be the "host" OS and Windows 95/NT will be the "guest" OS. VMWare is NOT a emulator but has BIOS which allows you to install Windows 95/98/NT as the guest OS to linux. Install the VMWare on Linux server and than install Windows 95/NT on VMWare.

You can use the 'xhost' command and DISPLAY environment from diskless node. See 'man xhost' on linux. At diskless node give -


        export DISPLAY=server_hostname:0.0
where server_hostname is the name of the server machine.

Using VMWare Diskless linux computers can run both Linux and MS Windows 95 programs. VMWare is at http://www.vmware.com.


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