Need Help To Load Network Device Drivers In DOS

[shifrbv]

I have a PC with NT 4 Workstation with an NTFS partition on it. I want to blow NT away and load up Win98SE. My only problem is, this PC doesn't have a CD-ROM and I need to install everything over the network from my Win2K computer. I don't know how to load my Xircom CEM56-100 network card in DOS. I have the dos drivers from Xircom's page.
However, I've looked all over the net and no one seems to have an example of an autoexec.bat and cofig.sys file which does this (only ones loading CD-ROMs, sound cards, etc. are out there).

Does someone have an example of autoexec.bat and cofig.sys files which load network device drivers? Also, maybe a brief explanation of the best way to load Win98SE on this NTFS laptop?

 

[DaveJ]

If you have WinNT, do you have the Netboot util? It's a decent bootdisk creator that ships with the resource kit... I can probably find it around here if you need it...

Dave

 

[Norssak]

It is a tricky process. I have done this for a handful of different network cards. Usually it takes a manual tweak or 2 to get it to work even if you do everything by the book. You need a machine running NT server 4.0 (i'm sure 2000 has it too, just haven't looked) the utility is called Network client administrator (I think). Basically it would take me half an hour to describe all the pitfalls, and each network card needs it's very own, unique boot disk. PUT A CDROM IN YOUR MACHINE. Much faster, and much more reliable, since I believe 2000 will reboot during installation and boot from the harddrive.....laying waste to your neatly crafted plan.

EDIT ok, can the last part..you want to install W98se...same problem, but try this: Take out harddrive, install in in your W2k box, format it as fat32, copy the win98 folder from the cd to the harddrive. Boot from any old floppy, run setup

I do use the dos-network trick to ghost machines off a network drive, and then it is a lifesaver.

 

[jsm]

Microsoft has a usable article or two on their knowledge base.

Check this out.

This is probably useless to you, but this is how you set it up for Windows 2000.