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not PHP related, but interesting nevertheless

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 10:15 am
by malcolmboston
hmmm, ok thought i'd share a problem im having here, i believe it is impossible but just wanted to make sure

i currently have 2 PC's but only one hard-drive

is there any feasable way of them sharing the same hard-drive until i can purchase one?

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 10:20 am
by JayBird
I have never seen two individual conputers running from one hard drive, don't think there would be enough demand for that kind of feature these days giving the cheapness of components today.

But...

I did once see an application there was designed for school to cut costs on computer equipment. Basically, they had one computer (tower) too which was connect 2 monitors.

Two people then could run separate windows sessions as if they were using their own computer. Don't think it really took off though.

Im sure you can afford a hard drive, don't they give them away in cornflake packets these days?

Mark

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 10:22 am
by mrvanjohnson
Not real savy on this, but if you install Linux on the box with the hard drive, couldn't you then make the other box a dummy terminal?

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 10:24 am
by malcolmboston
lol, well ive just spent al my wages on the rest of the parts for a new red hat server, so its not possible until next week and seeing as i need to use dreamweaver, PS7, TopStyle, Zend And IE6 everyday then switching solely to RH9 is currently not an option, i have wine @ home but its by no means compatible with all software

i know exactly what you mean when you say
I did once see an application there was designed for school to cut costs on computer equipment. Basically, they had one computer (tower) too which was connect 2 monitors.

Two people then could run separate windows sessions as if they were using their own computer. Don't think it really took off though.
me and my mate where looking at this option when we first started going to college (4/5 years ago) but have never heard about it since, even if it was possible running different partition systems on one HD would also raise a problem (partition magic could solve all that though)

any ideas?[/quote]

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 10:25 am
by malcolmboston
Not real savy on this, but if you install Linux on the box with the hard drive, couldn't you then make the other box a dummy terminal?
explain?

it would need to boot from (a) hard-drive initially though

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 11:27 am
by Weirdan
malcolmboston wrote:it would need to boot from (a) hard-drive initially though
It could boot from floppy ;)

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 11:30 am
by malcolmboston
lol, well im not too good at all this stuff, yes it could but........

but im adamant it would have to access a HD afterwards to be able to actually loads the OS (RH9 is not a small OS)

any ideas at all, (explanations as well) would be greatly appreciared

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 12:11 pm
by Weirdan
You can try NFS: [google]NFS[/google]
NFS is Network File System, not the Need for Speed as you might think ;)

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 12:14 pm
by malcolmboston
this is the sort of thing i was thinking about, booting up from the network
(network boot is completely different btw) ill post back if i dont understand anything if thats ok with you

Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2004 12:36 pm
by timvw
if you have a cdrom or usb memorystick you could plugin that to boot.
And then you could mount the hd on your other pc.