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Thread ID: 12856	2001-11-13 06:29:00	Networking home pc's via DOS	Guest (0)	Press F1

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24365	2001-11-13 06:29:00	I want to connect two home pc's together via network cards but by booting both from a dos floppy disk on both machines ( so I can run a dos program ((Drive Image) to image one machine to the other without starting windows. I know some programs can image from Window but I particualy want to do it from dos. All the network cards I have seen only have Win9x and such like drivers but not dos. I note some cards have RTL80AS chipsets and there are dos drivers ( NDIS2 ) on the net for these - but what is NDIS2 If I get such network card and load the NDIS2 driver can I do as I have outlined above	Guest (0)
24366	2001-11-13 07:38:00	Sorry it's a bit out of my realm and I don't know if you can do it or not. I would love to know what your reason for using NICs is. Is it an experiment? Because it would be much easier to temporarily install the other HDD to the main machine and transfer your image. If it is an experiment and you are successful, please post the results. If you have no luck with postings in a day or so I will bring it to the attention of a DOShead friend of mine and he will maybe be able to help you. Good luck BC	Guest (0)
24367	2001-11-13 09:08:00	An almost guarenteed way is through old ISA cards those were great, still got a couple should be able to get a hold of some through the T & E. Also if you have dos 6.22 you also have a great networking tool via serial cables or lpt cable (Like the fastlynk program. called Interlink fastlynk should be able to do it too if you can get a copy. But yes much easier via installing the hard drive on the other computer. The only possible scenario that you do not want to pull the computer apart is if you already have two Hard Drives in a couple of partitions each. with windows installed on the third or fourth partition. (or warranty, or if you don't know how, to some one will fill you in.)	Guest (0)
24368	2001-11-14 03:24:00	You can connect them physically, but the problem comes in when you want to network them. There is a nice way to set one machine up as a Telnet and FTP server, and transfer files to and from the other using it as an FTP client. And you can fit that on a single floppy (even a 360k floppy!). But it won't act as an operating system to run 'Drive Image'. If D-I produces a file on the source computer, you could then transfer it using FTP.If D-I just wants drivers for the network cards, and needs 'packet' drivers, these ara available at the SimTel archive in msdos/pktdrvr/pktd11.zip and pktd11c.zip (but these date from abour 1996, so really cater for the older ISA boards). If you want to try out telnet/FTP, the NCSA programmes and documents are at SimTel, in msdos/ncsalnt. The minimum computer requirements are: a 286 class or better, running DOS 2.0 or later. But it's not userfriendly, intuitive software. It takes a lot of reading of the documentation, and getting the configuration files exactly right. I keep a couple of floppies with my pocket printerport Ethernet adaptor. It's much faster than serial ports. If this is a one-off need, I agree with the other repliers ... you should be able to setup one disk as a slave to the other, and do it on one machine.	Guest (0)
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