I want to install win 2K pro on a machine with no OS using a remote installation folder located on Win 2K server in domain environment. The client machine has an NIC with PXE ROM. Pl. advice on how to use Client for Microsoft Networks to remotely boot in to server. The domain has DHCP installed.

I don't have an answer for you offhand, but you may want to look in www.bootdisk.comm and see if there are boot disks out there already. I imagine you want to find one that matches your NIC and can connect to the shared drive the install files reside on.

I'm no expert on Win2k server, but if you go into DHCP server config and go into the relevant Scope or subnet, then open its properties, you chould be able to set a 'Remote Boot Server', 'PXE Boot Server' or similar - set this to the IP address (maybe the server name will work too) of your RIS server. You'll then need to configure RIS to make available Win2000 to install remotely. If course, you'll need RIS installed and configured on your system, but unfortunately I can't help you with that. Have you thought about using Norton Ghost Corporate Edition 7.5 or 8 to sysprep and take an image of a model system (with all the software etc installed) and then use GhostCast Server to deploy (with the help of PXE ROM which will require TFTP; or a specially configured DOS floppy disk) the image to target machines? You'd need some lines in the sysprep.ini used to sysprep the model system before ghosting to remove your IDE controller configuration. This is only a suggestion, but has the advantage of deploying the applications simultaneously as well as the OS.