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hi everyone, (I sent this to another newsgroup but no reply)
I recently read a few articles about this (i.e. Q142857)... and I follow all
the steps exactly as it says. but it never worked. don't get me wrong I'm
just trying to test this out, I'd never replace Bart's Network Boot Disk
with this. I'm just getting curious why it doesn't work. the 'net' commands
in autoexec.bat don't execute. and when I try to run them manually by typing
the command (i.e net start) it gives an error about 'specified file not
found' or something like that. I'd appreciate any help with this... it's
really getting on my nerves trying different settings and resetting the
computer to find out if it works. sigh!!

thanks in advance,
Ali,
MCSA,CCNA

"Ali" <> wrote
> I'm just getting curious why it doesn't work. the 'net' commands
> in autoexec.bat don't execute.
This may be obvious, but you do have a copy of net.exe on your boot disk,
right?

hey Brian,
ofcourse net.exe is on the floppy, also every file needed for the net
connection. here's someone's reply from the other newsgroup, and my
response:

If you require specific answers then you need to ask specific
rather than general questions. You also also need to say
what exactly you have on your DOS network boot disk,
what's in autoexec.bat and config.sys, and what the exact
error message is. When you write that you got an error message
"Something like that" then this leaves far too much room for
guessing.


[my reply]
well... ok, I better explain things here.
I have VMWare installed, and I'm trying to connect to the server with this
DOS network boot disk (yeah right) that

Microsoft has given an article about how to make. ok so I download the 2
Boot Disk Generator files from:
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/clien...ent/dsk3-1.exe
ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/clien...ent/dsk3-2.exe
first of all I made an MSDOS startup floppy, then I deleted all unneccessary
files, to have enough room for the

network files. I run the setup program for the net-boot-disk, to install it
on the same floppy. installs everything,

and modifies autoexec.bat and config.sys as follows:

[autoexec.bat]:

SET PATH=A:\NET
A:\NET\net initialize
A:\NET\netbind.com
A:\NET\umb.com
A:\NET\tcptsr.exe
A:\NET\tinyrfc.exe
A:\NET\nmtsr.exe
A:\NET\emsbfr.exe
A:\NET\net start

[config.sys]

FILES=20
device=A:\NET\ifshlp.sys
LASTDRIVE=Z

well I had to add a few lines to these 2 files for some enhancements:

[autoexec.bat]

loadhigh share
loadhigh smartdrv
loadhigh doskey

[config.sys]

device-c:\dos\himem.sys
dos=high,umb

ok, so far so good. now I reboot with the super duper boot disk, and I get
errors all over:

C:\>NET\tcptsr.exe
NET0111: Error accessing NEMM.DOS. TCP 1.0 not loaded.

C:\>C:\NET\tinyrfc.exe
NET0111: Error accessing NEMM.DOS. Tiny RFC 1.0 not loaded.
Press any key to continue

C:\>C:\NET\nmtsr.exe
NET0111: Error accessing NEMM.DOS. NMTSR 1.0 not loaded.
Press any key to continue

hmm, well I don't even know what the heck this file (nemm.dos) is for, and I
didn't even modify it, and yes it's

right there in it's place in A:\net\
Bart's Boot Disk is just something I call a miracle for DOS. although I
should state that I can't get it to work with

TCP/IP. but when I switch to NETBEUI, it works perfectly. the network boot
disk generator that MS has provided

is garbage, and I mean it. it doesn't even re-modify autoexec and config
after changing the settings.
but then again, I'm just trying to get this to work, or to see if it works.
a few pages I got help from are:
http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/doscl3up.htm
http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/dosclflp.htm
http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/dosclnt3.htm
http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/doscltcp.htm
etc....

I think this should be enough info. hope you can help on this one. thanks a
bunch.

Regards,
Ali,
MCSA,CCNA

have you tried to look at http://www.bootdisk.com

they have just about all the boot disk you will need..

Greg
"Ali" <> wrote in message
news:e3er$...
> hey Brian,
> ofcourse net.exe is on the floppy, also every file needed for the net
> connection. here's someone's reply from the other newsgroup, and my
> response:
>
> If you require specific answers then you need to ask specific
> rather than general questions. You also also need to say
> what exactly you have on your DOS network boot disk,
> what's in autoexec.bat and config.sys, and what the exact
> error message is. When you write that you got an error message
> "Something like that" then this leaves far too much room for
> guessing.
>
>
> [my reply]
> well... ok, I better explain things here.
> I have VMWare installed, and I'm trying to connect to the server with this
> DOS network boot disk (yeah right) that
>
> Microsoft has given an article about how to make. ok so I download the 2
> Boot Disk Generator files from:
> ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/clien...ent/dsk3-1.exe
> ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/bussys/clien...ent/dsk3-2.exe
> first of all I made an MSDOS startup floppy, then I deleted all
unneccessary
> files, to have enough room for the
>
> network files. I run the setup program for the net-boot-disk, to install
it
> on the same floppy. installs everything,
>
> and modifies autoexec.bat and config.sys as follows:
>
> [autoexec.bat]:
>
> SET PATH=A:\NET
> A:\NET\net initialize
> A:\NET\netbind.com
> A:\NET\umb.com
> A:\NET\tcptsr.exe
> A:\NET\tinyrfc.exe
> A:\NET\nmtsr.exe
> A:\NET\emsbfr.exe
> A:\NET\net start
>
> [config.sys]
>
> FILES=20
> device=A:\NET\ifshlp.sys
> LASTDRIVE=Z
>
> well I had to add a few lines to these 2 files for some enhancements:
>
> [autoexec.bat]
>
> loadhigh share
> loadhigh smartdrv
> loadhigh doskey
>
> [config.sys]
>
> device-c:\dos\himem.sys
> dos=high,umb
>
> ok, so far so good. now I reboot with the super duper boot disk, and I get
> errors all over:
>
> C:\>NET\tcptsr.exe
> NET0111: Error accessing NEMM.DOS. TCP 1.0 not loaded.
>
> C:\>C:\NET\tinyrfc.exe
> NET0111: Error accessing NEMM.DOS. Tiny RFC 1.0 not loaded.
> Press any key to continue
>
> C:\>C:\NET\nmtsr.exe
> NET0111: Error accessing NEMM.DOS. NMTSR 1.0 not loaded.
> Press any key to continue
>
> hmm, well I don't even know what the heck this file (nemm.dos) is for, and
I
> didn't even modify it, and yes it's
>
> right there in it's place in A:\net\
> Bart's Boot Disk is just something I call a miracle for DOS. although I
> should state that I can't get it to work with
>
> TCP/IP. but when I switch to NETBEUI, it works perfectly. the network boot
> disk generator that MS has provided
>
> is garbage, and I mean it. it doesn't even re-modify autoexec and config
> after changing the settings.
> but then again, I'm just trying to get this to work, or to see if it
works.
> a few pages I got help from are:
> http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/doscl3up.htm
> http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/dosclflp.htm
> http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/dosclnt3.htm
> http://www.wown.com/j_helmig/doscltcp.htm
> etc....
>
> I think this should be enough info. hope you can help on this one. thanks
a
> bunch.
>
> Regards,
> Ali,
> MCSA,CCNA
>
>