what type of machines are they? the ibook and powerbook have a little feature called firewire target disk mode which would allow you to start one of the machines as an external firewire drive... I don't know if this works on desktop systems.. and of course you would need firewire....ok well here is a site that helps explain the process.... looks like desktops are indeed supported..:
http://biochemistry.ucsf.edu/~tech/S...tdiskmode.html
have fun and post back your results ..(I haven't tried this yet)
used to be wg2499....but then........