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I have created a network boot disk using NT's Network Client Administrator. I am using the correct NDIS driver for my Xircom Card. When I boot the machine into DOS everything initializes from the boot disk, then I get an "Error 8: There is not enough memory available." This happens after the autoexec.bat finishes loading the applications. Any idea how to fix this issue.

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by curlergirl

This is a common problem when using a TCP/IP boot disk - because TCP/IP uses quite a bit of memory and then if you try to run DOS programs that require quite a bit of memory, they won't run. First, try loading as much stuff into high memory as possible (you have to make sure to load the DOS emm386.exe memory manager and use the loadhigh command before each program you want to load into high memory). Some of the network stuff will not load into high memory, but try to get as much as you can togo there. If that doesn't fix the problem, try using NetBEUI instead of TCP/IP - this is the primary reason that NetBEUI was so much more popular than TCP/IP until Windows 95 came along. It's very small and works well with DOS. However, you have to have NetBEUI running on any servers and/or workstations on the domain that you need to connect to from the DOS workstation. There's a TechNet article that may help, too: Q128800. This tells you how to add the required NIC drivers to your setup files on the server so that they are always available when you create a DOS boot disk using the Network Client Administrator program. Good luck - hope this helps!

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