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

adjective. Without the use of floppy disks.

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

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