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| crazyska 2001-03-15, 7:55 pm |
| How do you make a network Boot disk. I am not talking about a RIS installation disk just a normal disk for a PC that doesn't have a OS on it so it can reconize where the install server is
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| You've got a couple of choices, you can use a good 'ol DOS boot disk, or you can use RBFG.EXE which will create adapter specific boot disks (but only for adapters it knows about...)
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Originally posted by StormWalker
You've got a couple of choices, you can use a good 'ol DOS boot disk, or you can use RBFG.EXE which will create adapter specific boot disks (but only for adapters it knows about...)
Hope this helps....
Actually, a good 'ol DOS boot disk will not give you network connectivity by itself. You will need to install the network drivers on in amongst other files. The Remote Boot Floppy Generator tool (Rbfg.exe) for Remote Installation creates a Pre-boot Execution Environment (PXE) emulator that works on a supported set of PCI adapters that do not have a PXE ROM embedded on the adapter. Again this will do nothing for you unless you have a RIS server. Once you boot up with this disk, it will look for a DHCP server (a requirement for RIS) and if it isn't found it will give you an error message and stop.
Check out these URLs for more information.
http://www.bootdisk.com
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| you have a couple of ways
if you have access to a windows nt server disk you can use the ms client program on it to make a network boot disk it in the client directory of the nt cd ms client use's ipx to gain network connectivity so you must have nwlink loaded on your server or you can make a tcp/ip network boot disk
my self i prefer the ms client disk as it is easier to use , you can also download the client disk programs from the MS site
you of course will need a bootable floppy and your nic drivers but other wise it is very straight forward
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| Slinky:
You are 100% correct of course - I did leave that out. Okay if we chalk that one up to too much St. Patrick's Day / Just passed 70-216 celebration?
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