boot from a network share (or something like that)?

[Lloyd Dupont]

I'm trying to make an image for diskless thin station (network boot).
I'm a kind of a newbie and I'm under the impression that in this scenarion
the thin PCs / touchscreens would downloaded the whole image in some sort of
RAM disk, and then boot from there.
I wonder if it's possible to reduce the size of the RAM disk by booting of a
network share (i.e. not from RAM disk at all, but of the network, hence we
will save diskspace (i.e. memory for the RAM drive))?

 

[Sean Liming \(MVP\)]

You are correct about the process of remote boot. The image has to exist in
the PC that it is going to run. The RAM must be twice the size of the image.

Regards,

Sean Liming
www.sjjmicro.com / www.seanliming.com
Book Author - XP Embedded Advanced, XP Embedded Supplemental Toolkit