A note on
PlanetHalf-Life (thanks BFSolo) from yesterday indicates that Valve is now
anticipating the release of the no stuttering patch for Half-Life 2
(story) sometime today: "We're still working through some testing
on this release. It might be something we'll want to hold for another day and
release tomorrow."
I'm using RIS on my setup, but of course it only allows installations, not diskless bootstrapping. I was hoping there was a solution for doing this in Windows (I've heard that they're out there).