Topic: ? about placing a Network Boot disk on CD
started by: jawakotb
Posted by jawakotb on Jan. 23 2004,14:14
With the WindowsXP created boot disk creator, I have created a network bootdisk that loads up the correct NIC drives and then tries to attach to my network server/share. The System.ini has all the correct statements in it, and it works just fine from Floppy. But when I create the IMG file of that floppy and then using EasyBoot place it on the CD it works with on flaw. After it asks for the USERNAME and password, the system states it cannot write to the CD. (Which it is correct in stating.) My question is, does anybody know how to stop the MS files from trying to create the password (*.PWL) file in the first place? (Perhaps a switch in the system.ini file?)Thanks for the help all!
Posted by martinx on Jan. 25 2004,09:16
The emulated floppy drive created by EasyBoot is read-only, you can resolve this kind of problem by using third-party tools such as Boot CD Wizard.
Posted by Hannes on Jan. 25 2004,18:03
One other thing you could do is to boot from the original floppy one and allow it to create the PWD file. After that, create the IMG file and your image will then have the PWD file on it already.Hannes
Posted by Jawakotb on Jan. 26 2004,10:07
The floppy diskette already does have the pwl file there, but for unknown reasons the #### MS files wish to re-write the pwl file again. (I was thinking the same thing...hehe)Is there any type of "switch" or statement that can be placed in the protocol.ini or system.ini of the floppy diskette to which then passwords will NOT be saved? MS Technet KB is not very helpfull in my quest either.
Posted by Hannes on Jan. 26 2004,11:27
I'll have to experiment with that if I get a chance at some point. The only other thing I could think of would be this:You could create a RAMDISK and then have all your files copied to the ramdisk. This way it would be writable and the problem would be solved!
Hannes
Posted by jawakotb on Jan. 27 2004,10:29
RAMDISK, 
!Do you have a link to this Program so I may look into this as an option? I have found RamDisk for 9x/NT/W2k/XP but not dos...
Thanks!
Posted by Hannes on Jan. 27 2004,19:51
There is one included with DOS called RAMDRIVE.SYS. If you need more functionality just search on "Ramdisk DOS" and you should find plenty of them on the internet.Let me know if you need any more help with this!
Hannes
Posted by ntsc on Jan. 29 2004,17:55
Pleased someone else is having the same problem !!!Considered a ramdrive - found one on the Net which allows you to assign a fixed drive letter as well
I am assuming that I will need to attrib some of the files copied to the Ramdrive as won't they be read only after being originally copied to the CDROM, to allow them to be altered during the boot process ?.
Most of the systems I will be trying to use this on will have the CDROM as drive D - is their anyway of passing back the assigned CDROM drive letter in case I encounter a system with Multiple Partitions and therefore the CDROM drive letter won't be D ? - so that the copy or xcopy commands will be able to copy the files from the CDROM to the ramdrive.
Hopefully I'll get chance to do a test over the next week - so I'll report back if anyone is interested