I wanted to put a clean image of the workstation into a hidden partition on the hard drive, and give the user a command to reimage their own machine. I faced this same problem - you cant boot into dos from nt without rewriting the boot block. Fortunately someone else has done the heavy lifting on this and given us the tool for free.
Download Bootpa22.zip from http://www.winimage.com/bootpart.htm and read all the documentation before attempting to use it. Later - DR > Hi All > This may seem off topic but I have a need for computers to be booted into > MSDOS so that they can be reimaged. Brief history of the problem. > I control a games cafe that have all the games running on windows 98 but > the main problem was that there was no efficient way to lock down the > system without loosing funtionality. So I ended up imaging a good > proportion of them at least once a week through a batch process > (reconfigured the autoexec, config.sys, copy files and reboot and the > system would come up in a ghost multicast session and away it would go). > We now have an image of the games in windows 2000 professional. I > Tested everything and the only problem we now have is the fact that we can > not boot them back into MSDOS because of the MBR has a requirement for > ntldr. > I have tried RIS, but the network cards are restrictive, and hard coded > into the service, I tried with Intel 100S cards but the RIS system only > allows Intel 100B, and Intel 100B cards are unavailable in Australia at > this time, (if someone has 50 - 60 available I am interested) it is very > frustrating. > Now my question is, does anyone know of either a script for changing the > boot record of the hard drive to accomodate a MSDOS session or another way > around my predicament. > All help would be greatly appreciated. > Thanks in advance > > ------ > You are subscribed as [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe send a blank email to %%email.unsub%% > -- Windows has problems. Novell has solutions. ------ You are subscribed as [email protected] Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
