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Title: Windows 7 Enterprise has diskless node option. Post by: Pipesnake on July 22, 2011, 05:36:12 AM Read the other day that the enterprise version of Windows 7 has the option to run diskless. This would be ideal for mining over multiple rigs.
The problem is I've never used it and there seems to be almost no documentation on how to get it set up. Is anyone mining over multiple rigs in this fashion under Windows 7 Enterprise? Title: Re: Windows 7 Enterprise has diskless node option. Post by: FreeJAC on July 22, 2011, 07:19:43 PM If you google LAN boot Windows there are a couple of hits that come up for XP and Vista one at Toms Hardware and one at ARS.
Title: Re: Windows 7 Enterprise has diskless node option. Post by: FreeJAC on July 24, 2011, 01:30:10 PM There is what they call a "step by step deployment guide" at the end of this: http://blogs.technet.com/b/storageserver/archive/2011/05/04/diskless-servers-can-boot-and-run-from-the-microsoft-iscsi-software-target-using-a-regular-network-card.aspx (http://blogs.technet.com/b/storageserver/archive/2011/05/04/diskless-servers-can-boot-and-run-from-the-microsoft-iscsi-software-target-using-a-regular-network-card.aspx)
I don't think that is quite what you are looking for, but I think that is about as close as it is going to get. This has a bit more information but mostly the same. http://www.wininternet.com/article/view/id-47561 (http://www.wininternet.com/article/view/id-47561) Title: Re: Windows 7 Enterprise has diskless node option. Post by: riX on July 24, 2011, 02:11:09 PM Or you could use any linux (or windows) live cd which you load into ram when booting. You just have to modify it with miner software etc before.
Title: Re: Windows 7 Enterprise has diskless node option. Post by: FreeJAC on July 24, 2011, 03:17:46 PM I think the point of this was to not have to have a local boot device. If you could tell him how to TFTP the Live CD to him off a PXE boot then that could earn you the 2 BTC! ;)
Title: Re: Windows 7 Enterprise has diskless node option. Post by: riX on July 24, 2011, 10:39:02 PM I'd need more like 50 btc to write up an article like that.
For OP: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=live+cd+tftp (http://lmgtfy.com/?q=live+cd+tftp) Title: Re: Windows 7 Enterprise has diskless node option. Post by: Raoul Duke on July 24, 2011, 11:57:21 PM Buy a windows license and ask microsoft for support, maybe?
Title: Re: Windows 7 Enterprise has diskless node option. Post by: FreeJAC on July 25, 2011, 02:04:34 AM Well one guy in the comments suggested he followed the directions there and it worked. Fumbled a lot though. Unless one of the tech journalist pick it up and work through it I don't think you are going to find what you are looking for.
Title: Re: Windows 7 Enterprise has diskless node option. Post by: Kermee on July 25, 2011, 02:11:29 AM gPXE + iSCSI + Ubuntu FTW.
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