At 15:22 19/04/99 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi!
>It's springtime and so I decided to try out something new. Maybe someone
>can hint me at some docs/sites/etc about this:
>Currently I have three installations here on three different HD's (IDE
>only): Linux, WinNt and Win98. I swap the drives using a drive bay.
>Now what I want to do is:
>build another box from the remains I have laying around, stick those
>Windows-ridden drives and an Ethernet card in and run everything from
>within Linux only using Samba.
>I don't want to use something like VMWare for performance and stability
>reasons.
>Main problem so far:
>How do I boot the new box from within Linux? i.e.: NT's boot screen and
>login prompt must be visible/accessible via Linux since NT's box won't
>have a keyboard attached. As far as I see this seems to require a somehow
>'intelligent' network card with a BIOS that runs independently from the
>OS, right? Is there something like this? Or am I completely nuts?
>In case you don't know what the hell I am talking about, I will try to be
>more explicit in a reply.
>
Have you lookead at VNC? (www.vnc.orl.co.uk) I know that
presents the windowsNT login screen to a viewer running
under X. At 100base-t it runs pretty well.
Not sure how Samba will help you here as that is a file/print
sharing mechanism.
ttfn
nicxk@nexnix
