> 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?
<shotinthedark> MS just patched the PnP systems of the w2k boxes (see Zobot: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1848289,00.asp ), so it's possible your ethernet cards are no longer being detected. What I would do if I were you is use tcpdump to figure out exactly what is not working, i.e., are they getting the dhcp license, are they starting to boot, etc... </shotinthedark> - Rob .
