DOS network drivers?

[Felecha]

I recently installed PowerQuest's Drive Image for backing up the whole hard drive, and I'm trying to figure out how to create an image of my notebook's hard drive and store the image on my second hard drive in my office desktop machine. It's clear how to store the image on a CD, or onto another partition on the notebook, but to send it out over my home network is not really covered, although it's referred to. It's clear that it can be done. The documentation is not teaching me all I need to know, I'm afraid.

I'm getting the impression that since Drive Image runs only under DOS, I need some sort of DOS driver for the NIC, Accton EN2242 MiniPCI Fast Ethernet Adapter. And that I have to put it on a boot disk. All I can find in the manual so far is

"You may need to create boot disks to access network drives before you can create an image."

That's sort of like instructions for pulling a rabbit out of a hat:

"Pull the rabbit out of the hat. Your friends will be amazed".

Any help? I'm not a complete rookie, but this is more than I know about.

Thanks.

F

 

[ScottMac]

Do any NDIS/ODI drivers come with the software? Check the driver disk that came with the NIC for old Novell ODI drivers, or NDIS2 drivers.

You're gonna need the rest of the stack, but I'm pretty sure the pieces & parts are still available on the 'net.

If you can find an old copy of Netmanage Chameleon, it has a pretty good collection of drivers, as did "FTP Software" (that's a company name). Both are/were commercial packages, semi-expensive.

You maight be able to find Clarkson Packet Drivers available on some of the college networks, but I haven't head of any new developement on those in decades, so maybe your NIC won't have a driver available from those guys.

If you can lay hands on an old copy of Novell (2.x-3.x...maybe even 4.x), the DOS drivers will be available on the clients disk.

You'll still need a Novell ODI driver (probably from the NIC manufacturer - website or driver disk) for your specific NIC.

Good Luck

Scott

 

[Poof]

I think the newer Drive Image ("Pro" could be run from windoze. But basically, you'd need to create a regular boot disk, either get DOS drivers from the NIC's driver disk (if you still have it) or go to their website and download them... then modify the config.sys (or autoexec.bat depending on how the drivers were supplied) to have the drive load at boot. Finally, there's a little program that windoze has that allows the "net start" command for you to attach to another windoze machine (like 2K).

When we did this with the older version, we usually pulled the image from our network server and created 2 floppies - a boot one and one with the "pqdi" binary to actually run it from floppy.

I did some searching around (curious about doing this nowadays), and I found that different procedures need to be done depending on which OS you're connecting to. If your workstation is 2K, you could follow this and this, getting a copy of ncadmin.exe from here (it seems 😉)... Running ncadmin supposedly allows you to create a net boot disk. You would then need a second floppy for the Drive Image program.

Alternately, for other windozes, you can try instructions here.

Yeah... it's a bit of a PITA. 🙁