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by garyj.rice

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Hello All. I'm a technician in a school have 30 win95 pc's scavanged from another school. No CD's in them, just floppy. They are members of the old school's domain with a policy on them that wont allow me to bypass logon screen. Also safe mode seemsto have been disabled. Our network is a w2000 domain with 9x stations. I want to create a network boot disk that will allow me to connect to the server and do a fresh install of w95 from the w95 cd in the server. I have NOT got NT4 and so can not user Network Admin Client Creator.

Any ideas would be gratefully received, I've only been doing this for 3 months.

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by jeff adams

Visit a site like BovisTech Bootdisks and download the appropriate tool to create the boot disk you want.

http://www.bovistech.com/disks.htm

At the top of this page is a BootDisk menu. In it you will find options for creating TCP/IP disks, NetBEUI disks, IPX disks, TokenRing disks, etc.

As long as you know your envinronment, making the disk to do the job is a snap.

-Jeff

by jeff adams

Also, not being familiar with policies on Win 9x, could it be as simple as booting with a Win 9x boot disk, removing the policy file (?.POL) from the hard drive, and rebooting? Or is the policy information imported into the Registry?

A dirty method might be booting with a Win 9x boot disk, renaming the Registry files (system.dat and user.dat), copying the initial system registry from installation (usually found as C:\system.1st), and rebooting. It may find some new resources and new hardware, but it could be workable. Come to think of it, this could get too ugly for 30 PCs. I'd try one of the other two options first.

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