I think you will find that Win2k server doesnt use BIOS disk requests, accesses the hardware directly. Why not run it on VMware on a diskless Linux box?
Justin On Fri, 2004-01-02 at 11:17, Adam Megacz wrote: > > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Linuxbios mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios > > > > -- > "If Darl McBride [the CEO of SCO, who claims the GPL 'destroys > intellectual property'] was in charge, he'd probably make marriage > unconstitutional too, since clearly it de-emphasizes the commercial > nature of normal human interaction, and probably is a major > impediment to the commercial growth of prostitution" > > -- Linus Torvalds > _______________________________________________ > Linuxbios mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
