Definitions

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  • adjective Having no disk; appearing as a point and not expanded into a disk, as the image of a faint star in a telescope.

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  • adjective computing Without the use of floppy disks.

Etymologies

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disk +‎ -less

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Examples

  • The term diskless is not used because it is ambiguous. xCAT also includes a number of post provisioning administration tools, e.g.:

    Linux Magazine 2009

  • The new 'diskless' system allowed the comrades to decipher their own messages and had been sent to them a while earlier, but I had warned them not to use it for communications as we were uncertain of its strength.

    Searching for a women's movement 1995

  • The new 'diskless' system allowed the comrades to decipher their own messages and had been sent to them a while earlier, but I had warned them not to use it for communications as we were uncertain of its strength.

    Talking To Vula 1989

  • Flying Fox wrote: The basic idea for "diskless" was to have a barebones build with no HDD but an optical / usb drive, you boot it up and it starts folding.

    The Tech Report: News 2009

  • The basic idea for "diskless" was to have a barebones build with no HDD but an optical / usb drive, you boot it up and it starts folding.

    The Tech Report: News 2009

  • Other improvements that Microsoft called out in the beta server include new configuration and deployment options such as diskless boot, mixed-version clusters, and support for a remote head node database.

    EarthWeb IT Management News & Views 2009

  • In five years, I expect that ordering a blade chassis or a server with local disk to be the rarity, while diskless virtualization host servers will be the norm, with virtualization and SANs as common as keyboards.

    Five-year plan: 8 problems IT must solve Paul Venezia 2010

  • The client is generally a diskless, power-sipping, thin client system that does little or nothing more than connect to the VDI infrastructure.

    Making the leap to virtual desktop infrastructure 2010

  • They used to be called a graphic terminal and is today is also called a hybrid client or diskless node.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • They used to be called a graphic terminal and is today is also called a hybrid client or diskless node.

    Cloud Computing: A perfect storm gathering 2008

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