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Boot floppy with network support?
Name: richard Date: October 17, 2003 at 17:30:18 Pacific OS: Win98SE CPU/Ram: 233MHz/128MB
Comment:
I have a laptop with no CD player (floppy only). I have Win98SE on CD. I have a network all set up.
I need (I think?) a bootable Win98 disk with network support so I can install from the CD in another (networked) machine. Does such a thing exist?
There is no software currently on the laptop (failed upgrade to win 2K due to hardware incompatibility has resulted in this problem).
Name: MaadhuriMN Date: October 17, 2003 at 17:51:45 Pacific
Reply:
Even though you can create a Bootable CD with Network support using Norton Ghost in a Win98 PC with a CD-RW drive with Nero or another Burning Software, as long as you cannot make a Laptop computer with no Windows 9X (or above Operating system) part of an existing Network, I am wondering, how you can install an OS using that Bootable CD with Nework Support!
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Response Number 2
Name: Dave357 Date: October 17, 2003 at 21:33:26 Pacific
Reply:
Richard, I frequently install Windows this way. Here is the bootdisk that I use.
HTH
Dave
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Response Number 3
Name: x86 Date: October 17, 2003 at 23:53:07 Pacific
Summary: W9x has very little support inside safe mode, and I've never had luck with network support within it. Besides, you still need drivers, and I believe network support can only be achieved within a LAN(i...
Summary: Normaly the windows NT cd-rom has some directories with the software to make a boot floppy with network support. I don't know where but look at x:\i386\tools or x:\i386\support. ...
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