diskless
Adjective
Meaning
Having no disk; appearing as a point and not expanded into a disk, as the image of a faint star in a telescope.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Examples
A diskless node loads even its operating system from the network, and a computer terminal has no operating system at all; it is only an input/output interface to the server.
An example of where a handler saved the day was in ISC's diskless workstation support, where a bug in the implementation meant that using named pipes on the workstation could induce undesirable resource locking on the fileserver.
A LAN-based cluster is often called a LAVc, for Local Area Network VMScluster, and allows, among other things, bootstrapping a possibly diskless satellite node over the network using the system disk of a bootnode.
ISC designed its own GUI -based diskless workstations for use with these file servers, and ported DNIX again.
Ever wondered how to quickly and efficiently rollover all of your servers’ SSH keys or how to securely manage diskless systems?
History In 1984, the Reverse Address Resolution Protocol ( RARP ), defined in RFC 903, was introduced to allow simple devices such as diskless workstations to dynamically obtain a suitable IP address.