Creating Win2K boot CD-ROM w/ net support

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Frank Jones

I'd like to create a bootable Win2K CD that has networking support on boot.
Creating bootable CDs seems straightforward enough. But I'm not sure how to
identify and load the drivers for my server. Can anyone point me in the
right direction?

Frank
 
Okay, so let's say it's a floppy. How would I identify/load the drivers for
network support?
 
Frank Jones wrote in
Okay, so let's say it's a floppy. How would I identify/load the
drivers for network support?
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You need to think DOS-based w networking. Possibly a Linux CD
solution.

The scope of hand-crafting such a floppy solution is well beyond a
newsgroup item IMO.

I suggest investigating
http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/

I haven't used that one but "nu2" has a lot of very useful things.
 
Thanks for the link. Why would MS be making this so hard? All I want to do
is have a bootable disk/CD that has tools necessary to recover my server in
the event of unexpected failures.

Frank
 
Frank Jones said:
Thanks for the link. Why would MS be making this so hard? All I want to do
is have a bootable disk/CD that has tools necessary to recover my server in
the event of unexpected failures.
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That's what image backup programs like Ghost are for. Create a
disk or partition image onto another disk or multiple CDRs, that's
all you need to recover. You can even make the CDs bootable.

Rick
 
Frank Jones wrote in
Thanks for the link. Why would MS be making this so hard? All I
want to do is have a bootable disk/CD that has tools necessary to
recover my server in the event of unexpected failures.
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What is it you want to do?

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
has some utilities

A bootable diskette can be the basis for a bootable CD

Disk Imaging software is a very good tool to have.

Somewhere in NTx Server there is a utility to build a network
bootable diskette.

W2K Recovery Console is a prime recovery tool for some disk and
registry problems.

With NT4 I used to have a recovery installation on "C:" and the
production server on "D:"

RAID 5, Commercial backup software, ...
 
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