Subj : Re: non-disk stations
To   : Darren Gibbs
From : Leonard Erickson
Date : Sun Nov 05 2000 09:20 am

 -=> Quoting Darren Gibbs to Rich Wonneberger <=-

 >> Indeed I do. There was an executable called "rplfix.exe", which
 >> modified the boot image after creation - it had something to do with
 
 RW> YEA...
 RW> That was it.  Its been so long since I worked with Novell I'm
 RW> forgetting stuff.   :{

 DG> I had to stop and think about it myself, I must admit. I haven't done
 DG> a boot image machine in 10 years or more - hard disk space is so cheap
 DG> {and so fast} these days it's not worth worrying about. Last time I
 DG> did a boot image, a 20 meg hard disk drive cost in the order of an
 DG> extra $1000 on the price of a 286, so it made good economic sense to
 DG> go without them if you were outfitting an office of 500 or so PC's to
 DG> Netware. :-) 

I recently traded for an old NIC that had a boot ROM on it. I've set it
aside for when I set up an old IBM PC (or maybe a 286) to show just how
much you could do with such "underpowered" gear.


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