Hi all hope u got my previous posting related to this, I have gone a bit too far, after I got the Microsoft implementation of lanmanager for dos, which uses tcp/ip and has inbuilt drivers for almost all (ms accepted) network interfaces. This I installed along with boot disk, but could not fit onto one floppy, so installed into c drive with boot device as a: and in my RH server, I created a 2.88 mb floppy dummy file, formated this with a pre cooked bootsector using mformat. Then loop mounted it and copied all required files into this. then I used the etherboot package from www.slug.org.au/etherboot to create the netboot image for dos. checked this with a diskless client. well i had to do quite a lot of tunning before i got a working copy. I had to edit the system.ini file in several places to tune up lanmanager such that it automatically maps network shares provided by samba. other wise the 'net.exe' was asking username, password prompts, which I did not require. this was circumvented by editing 'lmlogon=0' and putting 'lmlogon=2' which was just a trial from my part. tomorrow or day after i am trying with a skeleton installation of windows 95 and if it succeeds, I will be going in for a windows 98 netboot. will keep u all posted finally when i think it is all ready, i will streamline and post the whole information to my tech support site. ------------------------------------------------------------------- prepare a dial in server and print in econo mode on hp 4L after reading techsupport at http://member.eth.net/73/jthoma Red Hat Linux release 6.2 (Zoot) Linux Version 2.2.16-21 Compiled #1 Mon Sep 18 16:47:57 EDT 2000 188MHz Intel Pentium MMX Processor, 32M RAM, 374.37 Bogomips Total ---------------------------------------------- An alpha version of a web based tool to manage your subscription with this mailing list is at http://lists.linux-india.org/cgi-bin/mj_wwwusr
