Re: Netboot Windows 95 info

["Shawn Mitchell" <mitchells@ktts.com>]

Windows NT 4.0 Server has the Netsetup with the new OSR's on it.  At least
mine does that I've been installing...

Shawn
-----Original Message-----
From: p.k.wong <pkwong@wpkgate.kc.com.my>
To: netboot@baghira.han.de <netboot@baghira.han.de>
Date: Sunday, May 31, 1998 3:37 PM
Subject: RE: Netboot Windows 95 info


>---Reply on mail from Shawn Barnhart about Netboot Windows 95 info
>> On Wed, 27 May 1998, Martin Joachim Wolf wrote:
>>
>> !I ask you to send me your bookmark-file ;-)))
>> !I think, there are a lot of people being interested in "new" information
>> !of all kinds of netbooting; and I for example do collect every page/text
>> !with easy and excellent explanations on a few linux-topics like ppp,
isdn,
>> !netboot, ...
>> !This does not mean that the wellknown homepages of netboot/etherboot are
>> !bad (I have a copy of all of them), I'm only looking for some different
>> !way's of explaining the same thing; this makes things often more easy
>> !understandable for beginners (like me) ;-))
>> !Would be great if everybody would publish his (favorite) links; we could
>> !make a "link-mail" or a new link-page.
>>
>> I'd like to see some pages on netbooting Win95 as well.   Everytime I've
>> looked into this, the docs refer to "netsetup.exe" a file that apparently
>> resides on the upgrade/full install CDs from MS for Win95A.  I've got
>> several upgrade CDs, and *none* of them have that file, which makes the
docs
>> that I've run across useless.  It seems like that file was only on
certain
>> select versions of Win95A upgrade & full install CDs, and on none of the
OEM
>> disks.  MS says it won't work with 95b, either.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Shawn Barnhart
>> swb@mercury.campbell-mithun.com
>>
>>
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>True enough there is no netsetup in OSR2 OEM version, but there is
netsetup.exe
>in OSR950 - the original retail version. What I have tried is to copy
>all the files in admin/nettools/netsetup to local hard and run from there.
>When prompt, you insert OSR2 version and it will get install to the server.
>There are additional files, so it is neccesary to ether edit netsetup.inf,
>prior to install or extract the additional files after install. The extract
>command therefore comes in handy.
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>>From what I have gathered, it's nealy imposible to remote Win 95, if the
>workstation is completely diskless:- without a real mode 16 bits network
support.
>For diskless operation, it needs a real mode 16 bits network stacks,
excluding
>16 bit MS-TCPIP because they are incompatiable with 32 bits virtual mode in
>Windows envroment. So there are NetBeui, IPX to choose from. IPX is very
>common. I started to remote boot wfw311 from NFS, IPX (Mars_Nwe on Linux):
>a Novell Netware 3.12 emulator, I have yet to be suceesful to remote boot
>a win95 from this emulator ( may be i should go for a real Netware
server?),
>even there is no problem with setup, i.e using the directory create by the
>netsetup.
>
>If anyone has any success in the same or nearly the same line as I have
>done, please contact me, thanks.
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>p.k.wong
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