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[andybaines]

kk, Ive loved this site and everything to do with it, found it amazingly helpful informative and have been totally impressed with the outcome.

(I was a total newb when registering, didnt even know such scripts were built into the setups etc.)

Heres the situation, I have 4 different computers and 2 laptops.

Desktop 1 : Main Gamming PC

Desktop 2 : Second Gamming PC

Desktop 3 : Maily Office Use etc

Desktop 4 : Basically Storage Server (On 24/7)

Laptop 1 : Main Work

Laptop 2 : Fathers (Only Family Tree/Office Stuff)

kk, now the games with regards to updates and stuff I dont mind doing manually etc, but when it comes to Office and the rest of the long line of utils/apps that are basically a must theres take a while to copy to the HDD. (During the WinXP setup screens.)

As I understand it these can be run from a network source (Desktop 4) is this possible with drivers aswell..? Rather then having to edit the winnt.sif file on the CD can it call this over the network so I can update the drivers folders as I see fit in the future without having to re-burn the CDR each time..?

A note that none of the desktops or laptops have floppy discs. (Do have USB floppy drives, can these be booted from..?) So strim all the DVDs I currently have setup (1 per computer.) to do it all over the network booting from perferably a CD (Single CD or a different one for each computer would be fine.)

If this is understandable lemme know, if not I'll try and re-word any of it.

Any advice for the best set up of this would be reccomended, I keep anything I want to keep on my storage computer and may even get a MediaCenter computer at a later date for my music and stuff...

Anyhow, thankyou in advance.