I need to create a win 98 image from DOS but without Windows running there is no connection to our TCP/IP network.

Does anybody know what drivers needs to be installed/running in DOS to allow manual mapping to a network drive in order to use GHOST to create an image?

I have a Realtek 8029 network card in the Win 98 machine.

Norton Ghost will only map network drives from it's Windows installation. It can't map drives via MS Client using the boot disks or DOS only. The idea of doing such a thing from DOS never crossed anyones mind until a couple of years ago. DOS was originally intended to be networked as a client-only to Novell Networks, housed on an IBM mainframe and later, to a Windows For Workgroups or NT Server. It's a shame and it sure would be handy to map and image drives from DOS. A friend of mine in Germany is working on a solution, but progress has been painfully slow.

I stand corrected: Norton Ghost Corporate Edition does have a Boot disk set that will image over a network. It currently supports 69 different network cards. Yours will certainly be one of them. You can get a demo here:
Here.

I've been told it's really, really expensive, though. So Gunter isn't working in vain for a free solution.

Doofus, thanks for the heads up.

Over my NT network, I Ghost images of machines by booting to DOS all the time with several models of 3Com network cards.

The tricky part is setting up your bootdisk to connect to your network with DOS. Using Ghost after that is effortless. I use Ghost 6.0 and it really makes things easier because it supports network drive mappings better. However I have used Ghost from version 4 on up on both Netware and NT networks.

Nicole are you logging into a NT domain? If so tell me the name of the domain and I will create a NT DOS boot diskette for you and e-mail it to you. The process of creating a diskette can be cumbersome so it's easier for me just to modify one of the ones I've already created and then e-mail it to you.

-Michael

I may have a solution using the MS DOS CLIENT v3.0. This works great. However, I have another question to ask. Does anyone know how to share DIRS from a dos bootdisk?

-Justin
If you are interest in a TCP/IP bootdisk please email me.

The following URL will show you how to set up a DOS PC as a server, sharing files. I have tried this myself successfully.

http://www.lfchosting.com/helmig/j_helmig/Dosservr.htm