W98 (DOS Mode) connection to W2Kpro

Greetings All, I hope this is the appropriate forum for this question. I made a W98se boot disk with cdrom support to boot a laptop with a blank HDD formated FAT32. I have a Win2kp desktop with a very large, (1.8G) disk image, (W98se), for the laptop, stored on it. Can anyone out there help with advice on how to load the nic drivers from the boot disk so I can connect the laptop to the network and pull the image over to it? Or, does any one know of one of those good "How To" web sites? I need the most help with advice of how to set up the configuration files for the network connectivity, config.sys, autoexec.bat, etc. I have your very basic Windows network, peer to peer, SMC broadband router/printer port, (also acts as my DHCP server), 1 desktop machine, 1 printer, and hopefuly soon, one laptop.

Best Regards
Scott

 

You should be able to get the network drivers needed to boot to DOS with network support from the install floppy that came with your NIC. Also, most will have information about the system.ini entries that will be needed (may even make the changes for you).

You just need to know that the files and settings needed are specific to the NIC. Not nearly as generalized as CD-rom support where there are only 3 or 4 major variations.

Once you have the PC booted to a dos prompt with networking support, connecting to the 2K PC is simple. Say you had a PC named my2K and a share on it with the files you want named 98share.

net use z: \\my2k\98share /persistent:yes

Will give you a Z drive that points to \\my2k\98share and will reconnect to it if you reboot.

 

www.bootdisk.com might have a disk image that might help you or that you can edit to your settings.

Cheers

Dagga