[ale] rsync, windows, netbooting, linux servers

[James P. Kinney III]

I was reflecting over a really good ice cream cone and started wondering
if the following were possible:

A diskless machine netboots a simple menu that redirects the boots to a
custom built-on-the-fly OS for running a specific application in an
optimized environment. 

I know a bunch of hard-core gamers that have custom boot floppies to
provide the best setup for their game. I was thinking other apps could
benefit from this practice as well. A master, blank, OS image(s) and
rsync diffs for the different apps merged on the fly for a netboot. Can
Windows work through a two stage boot? 

Has anyone seen anything even remotely like this? Sort of LTSP on
massive steroids.

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