Welcome to the Network Boot Disk Creation home page. Below you will find tools, links, utilities and other resources relating to network boot disk creation. Know of something that belongs here? Please, let us know.

Vendor Provided Tools

3Com
- 3Com NIC Support Page: 3Com Network Detection Utilities
Compaq
- Multi-NIC Boot Utility (MNBU).

There are also a number of network boot disk creation tools bundled with the imaging products on the market today such as Ghost and Drive Image. AppDeploy.com provides a review and walk through for the demos freely available on line for such products here.

 

Read-Made Disks

A handful of TCP/IP boot floppies are available from Portlock Software. Definitely worth a look; they also provide some helpful utilities worth checking out.

Check out this selection of TCP/IP boot floppies from Bovis Tech. Your work may have already been done for you!

Barts msclient bootdisk is a customized TCP/IP network bootdisk that enables you to connect to a network share on a Windows NT/2K or Windows 9x/ME machine using a range of network cards.

Universal TCP/IP Network Bootdisk for M$ Networks
The Universal TCP/IP Network Bootdisk is a DOS bootdisk that provides TCP/IP networking support. Currently 85 different network card drivers all included, all on the single 1.44MB disk!

The PowerLoad BootDisk Project - not network boot disks, but DOS, DR-DOS, PC-DOS and other boot disk OS images may be downloaded from here.

MicronPC offers some bootable disks as well, though not network boot disks, Windows 9x and NT startup disks are available for download here

XP Boot Disks from MS

 

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Frequently Asked Questions

> Where are there floppies I can download?
 
> How Do I Make A Network Boot Disk?
 
> What Are Some Good Resources For Finding Drivers?
 
> What Vendor Specific Tools Are Available?
 
> Where Can I Get A Windows XP Boot Disk?
 
> Where Can I Discuss These Issues With Others?
 
> How Do I Know What Network Card I Have?
 
> What Are Some Related MS KB Articles?
 
> Should I Edit My Protocal.ini File In Windows?
 
> What known issues exist with specific network cards?
 
> What Are Some Solutions To Common Problems?
 
> Why Type Of Network Driver Do I Need?
 
> What Is There To Know About The Network Client Administrator?
 
> What Is There To Know About The NetBoot Companion Tool?
 
> What Can I Use To Boot To The Network
 
> How Do I Detect What Network Card Is Present On A Machine?
 
> What Tools Are There To Help Me?
 
> What version of DOS should I use for my boot disk?
 
> Do you have a sample protocol.ini?
 
> Do you have a sample system.ini?
 
> What is the connect.dat file?
 
> What are those PWL files?