I'm trying to make a menu-driven Ghost boot CD that can load any number of NIC drivers from the CONFIG.SYS menu. I've solved all the problems except this one: I need the INSTALLHIGH MSCDEX.exe to happen before the DEVICE= lines for the NIC drivers. any help would be appreciated. " 'Think as I think,' said a man, 'or you are a toad.' And after I had thought of it, I said, 'I will then be a toad.' " Twink Jan

Packard Bell had a command called DEVICE.COM that allowed you to load drivers from a command line. Typically you'd use it in dosstart.bat to load the cdrom driver. Then you'd load MSCDEX. I was thinking instead of trying to run mscdex before loading these NIC drivers you could load them after mscdex in autoexec.bat using device.com. The packard bell dosstart setup would look something like this: LH DEVICE.COM OAKCDROM.SYS /D:MSCD LH MSCDEX.exe /D:MSCD In your particular case you could load the cdrom driver in config.sys since you'd be booting to dos anyway. Then in autoexec.bat you'd load mscdex in the first line and the NIC drivers in the subsequent lines using device.com. I'll email you device.com and you can give it a try.

Thanks - I've tried DRVLOAD and DEVLOAD and they both locked up when loading the first NIC driver (PROTMAN.SYS, I think), so I hope this works better... " 'Think as I think,' said a man, 'or you are a toad.' And after I had thought of it, I said, 'I will then be a toad.' " Twink Jan

Here's some additional info on that command: http://support.packardbell.com/es/i... Interestingly, it says the driver name in the DEVICE line must be in all caps. (edit) I read it again and I guess the capitalization only applies to the name give the cdrom in the driver line.

I guess I'll need to find a DOS 6.22 disk or a Win98 install. Using Symantec's load of PC-DOS, loading the NIc drivers in AUTOEXEC with any utility I've tried just locks up. I have a custom Win98 boot CD that I hacked together from the XP boot floppy that uses the WinME DOS, but that one won't load EMM386, and the NIC drivers crash wanting more conventional RAM. It looks like I need a DOS downgrade. Film at 11... " 'Think as I think,' said a man, 'or you are a toad.' And after I had thought of it, I said, 'I will then be a toad.' " Twink Jan

FYI the version of PC-DOS is a Symantec version PC-DOS 7revision0, just the 3 base files and it has been known to be problematic. I have found Acronis True Image more robust and does not rely on cobbling together obsolete software to function. That being said why are re-inventing the wheel ?? TDOnline have for download a Network Boot Disk: http://www.tdonline.com/bdisk.htm