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How to create network boot floppy

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Can someone please give me detailed instructions on how to create a network boot floppy disk. I want to be able to boot to floppy, then connect to a network drive. Any help would be appreciated.

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by dmiles

Creating a Windows NT boot disk is that it must be formatted in Windows NT
Required files
NTLDR
NTDETECT.COM
BOOT.INI
BOOTSECT.DOS (if you are booting a previously installed OS)
NTBOOTDD.SYS (if you have a SCSI controller with the BIOS disabled in your system)
All files can be found on WINNT istallation

by wpatrey

I would suggest creating a DOS boot disk and then adding in your NIC drivers and network software. The you can use the net commands to create drive mappings. NT server also has a utility to do this -- Network Client for MS-DOS. Use it -- it is the easiest.

by ronnonf

I believe the reason for this is your "scale counter" setting within performance monitor should be adjusted.

by boneil

Get the NT server CD. Make a DOS client using NetBeui or IPX/SPX (TCP/IP suite is too big for a floppy) you can change the configuration options from the system.ini file created (domain, users, workgroup). The setup can be invoked using setupmgr.exeon a windows nt server.

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