Thanks for the reply. I already saw that post, which refers to running the TS from a hard drive install. I will certainly try that next.

However, I am trying to run this from a CD, so although the symptom was the same, the root cause was different.

Since I last posted, I moved the 3Com NIC to a Pentium 450 PC with 100 meg of ram and a hard drive. The TS client booted up right away, but wanted to create a 60 meg swap file on the hard drive. Once the swap file was created, the problem was solved.

It looks like the issue was that the hardware was a little too "thin" for the TS requirements. Does anyone have an idea on the minimum requirements for a TS client?

Ideally I would really like to boot a diskless workstation, so I am curious about minimum / recommended CPU and ram requirements. However, we could add a hard drive for swap only, so feel free to factor that in as well.