The network administrator at my school has decided to try something new and I want to see if any of you can help me woth setting this up.

The idea is that we have quitte a few computers around but unfortuantely these computers are very old and slow so want to do is turn them all into diskless clients (no floppy, cdrom, hard drive) and have them boot solely off the network from a master server. By doing this what we want to be able to do is use just the one powerful computer and a bunch of trashy ones and if one breaks remove the network card and toss it out. Unfortunately I only have a very vague idea on how to do this so if one of you could help that would be great.

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Without a floppy, cdrom or harddrive, the BIOS will have to support network boots. Do you know if the BIOS on these machines will support it?

I think the ones we will be using to start with do.