I have been using Argon Technology's "Client Management Services" which is a PXE bootp and tftp server. This software allows a collection of PC's to boot of an menu file which can then select a floppy image file to boot from. One of these images can be set up to load Windows of any flavor.
Problem is it uses Microsoft's MS DOS NET Client 3.0 which stopped working since the last updates. It uses the old LAN Manager protocol and no currently patched windows 2000 server will allow it to attach using Microsoft's File Sharing to copy the files necessary to load windows. Here is what I need to do. I need to get a Linux floppy (which I can make an image of and save within the CMS software I spoke of). This Linux floppy needs to: 1> automatically boot, 2> partition the C drive as FAT, 3> Format the FAT volume, 4> Re-boot, 5> and then, using an FTP client, copy the i386 folder from an FTP server which I can easily set up, on to the FAT volume. 6> Then drop a one time command in an autoexec batch file to start winnt.exe (which runs in DOS and installs Windows), 7> Lastly I need to re-boot to DOS and let the autoexec start Winnt.exe using the local files to install Windows. I run several training centers and each has 12 PC's which need to be reloaded after each class. Since the last round of Security patches, the MS DOS NET Client 3.0 will no longer work and I am dead in the water and at my whit's end. Anyone know if this has been done or how to do it? Thanks.
