Ghost laptop to Win98 desktop by network

I want to replace the harddrive in my laptop. I need to ghost my laptop image to my desktop then replace the old harddrive with the new and then ghost the image back to the new drive. To do this I need to create a bootable disk for my laptop that will allow the laptop to be on my network. I cannot get the network drivers to work right even with new drivers from card manuf. Does anyone have any ideas? I’m about 80 – 90% complete on the boot disk. But when it boot up gets to loading the network driver, it hangs.