Hello

I'm a little annoyed with the Network installation part of my studies... been following both CBT Nuggets and the Official Microsoft Press study guide for the Microsoft 70-270 exam.

It seems that they glaze over the Network installation CD part. I'm very interested in which CD can be used to boot to a DOS environment, with network capabilities.

The following commands need to be usable;

• net use
• ipconfig
• cls
• cd

As well as the features which allow me to;

• Join a domain
• Change my computer name
• Authenticate myself on a domain
• Read/Write to NTFS

Please recommend to me a bootCD that will allow for the aforementioned process.

Thanks in advance,

Panarchy

NOTE: For some reason The Universal TCP/IP Network Bootdisk won't work for me. So please suggest something else!

EDIT: Just tried EtherBoot, didn't work for me

UPDATE
Found something that is very close to what I want, it's called unattended. Unfortunately, it can't seem to login to a Domain. I have requested this feature on there mailing-list.

Please recommend [another] tool that will allow me to do what I am trying to do.

Thanks in advance,

Panarchy

*bump*

Does IPCONFIG exist in the DOS world?

MODBOOT can write to NTFS drive on a network. And DOS with an NTFS driver (NTFS4DOS?) added can directly write to local NTFS drives also.

Haven't had to work with DOS in a while so I'm a little rusty.

In some of it:
http://www.computerhope.com/ipconfig.htm
http://www.topwebhosts.org/tools/ipconfig.php

Link to SAME thread on boot-land, just in case:
http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=7238

jaclaz

Thanks

There is currently a project (Unattended, FreeDOS version) that can currently do everything I need, EXCEPT accessing a share on a DOMAIN.

More info to answer your comments;

FreeDOS: http://wiki.fdos.org/DOS/Ntfs4dos

NeOS



NetBoot: http://sourceforge.net/projects/netboot/

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/masrtin/page6.htm

http://sourceforge.net/projects/fdlfn/

http://www.freedos.org/freedos/news/technote/152.html

http://sourceforge.net/projects/netscan/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/pynetworkshare/

For those that can't be bothered seeing what these links are, I will tell you that the most notable of the above links, are pyNetworkShare and NetBoot.

Panarchy