[TriLUG] Diskless w/s for legacy DOS app?

[Jason Tower]

because local port access is needed, the thin client approach may not be the 
best (there are ways to access local ports with a thin client setup but it's 
probably not worth the effort in this case, especially with dosemu).  so 
we'll run the app locally on each workstation and use NFS to tie them 
together for sharing the data, similar to using mapped drives under DOS.  the 
trick is to avoid moving/breakable parts like hard drives.  so instead of 
booting from a HD, set up the workstations with network booting (etherboot, 
PXE, whatever) and load the OS that way.  that should provide the best of 
both worlds - local running environment for the DOS app, centralized data 
storage, and no moving parts on the workstations.

jason

On Wednesday 13 November 2002 12:48, bp wrote:
> Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> >Does the DOS app (presumably a POS terminal app of some sort) use any
> >network connectivity?  Or does it just write to files?
> >
> >--Jeremy
>
> No network connectivity, completely oblivious to anything but the
> mounted file system from which it runs and lpt1  (& com1 to pop open the
> cash drawer but that's not a concern right now...).
>
>
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