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Create a DOS network boot disk?

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Name: MarlboroBearCub
Date: August 30, 2005 at 05:58:30 Pacific
OS: Current Win95/Dos 6.22
CPU/Ram: 486 50Mhz 8 megs ram Late
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I have a laptop running Windows 95, with no floppy or CD drive. It is networked with my XP desktop through a router. Both are able to see each other, access files and share a DSL connection.

The laptop uses a PC Card to provide network capabilities. The PC Card is a "Xircom CreditCard Ethernet 10/100". The model # is "CE3" or "CE3-10/100".

I need a way to create a DOS boot disk that has the ability to start a network from a plain DOS prompt, and map a share on my destop to a drive letter so that I can do a fresh install of Win98. I have the Xircom drivers, but when I attempt to run them, I get errors about being unable to load a protocol manager. On a nearly identical laptop (Same hardware, different software) I see references to "Card Services" as DOS loads.

Is that what I need? If so, where can I get it?

Please try to provide as much detail as possible on how to do this, as I know very little about networking outside of Windows.

Thanks!



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Name: plainandsimple
Date: August 30, 2005 at 07:05:59 Pacific
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If you have no floppy drive what good is a boot disk?? If you really want a boot disk try:

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/articles_tutorials/w9xbtflp.html

http://www.windowsnetworking.com/j_helmig/dosclflp.htm

http://tdonline.com/bootdisk.htm


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