Imagine you have a network with a number of computers and a server. However, all these computers have only blank hard disks in them and no OS. Only the server has OS.
Can we use the OS in the server to power up all the computers in the network in one go? That is, can we use the server to start all the computers in the network?
After that, each computer can work on its own, just like an ordinary PC with Windows OS.
Starting computers with no OS?network
it looks like you are thinking of what is called "network booting".
assuming you have the correct number of legal licenses. it is very easy and definitely doable with linux or mac os x.
to do this with windows is possible, but requires a bit more of know how. there are some tools that help with this (like http://www.shareup.com/Network_Boot_Tool... but it is more difficult.
What you can do is potentially fire-up a VM (virtual machine) image onto each of the harddrives of the client machines. If they are running something like VMWare workstation, or some version of Xen, they might be able to boot a VM image from the network and do exactly what you want.
That is probably what I would do, its probably easier.
Starting computers with no OS?norton
If, the OS is a multiple retail license version then you can
not really.. as windows licenses are for individual machines..
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