Bart's Network Boot Disk
...People tell me my network bootdisk is by far the best found on the web...
Version 2.7
Last updated on Mar 30, 2004
Important notice: the development and maintenance for this page has stopped. Please don't contact me about this page! I'm leaving the page as it is, for reference...
Table of contents
History
Sep 4, 2002 - v2.7
- Multi PCI network adapter detection failed (empty box), when using ms-dos 6.x, fixed it.
Aug 29, 2002 - v2.6
- Multi PCI network adapter detection, if more then one pci network adapter
is found you can select which one you want to use.
- If no driver plugins exist you'll get a message saying so.
- Saving profile had wrong directory (\msnet) should be (\etc).
- Fixed pc-name (freedos)
- Added some support for freedos (need loadlow command in freecom!)
- For msnet.cab v2.6 you must also update to utils.cab v1.8 and msclient.cab v1.2!
Jun 11, 2002 - v2.5e
- Source cleanup
- %srcdrv%\etc is now the default place to store config files for modboot.
changed msnet.bat to use %srcdrv%\etc instead of %srcdrv%\msnet
- Minor fixes
- Loading tinyrfc low, this would give out of memory errors
on some systems
- Fixed problem in random machine name in frence language (needs lmod.com v1.2)
- This version requires utils.cab v1.7
Jun 3, 2002 - v2.5d
- Bugfix! Second boot would rebuild the index (again). Fixed it.
May 31, 2002 - v2.5c
- Added a 32-bits CRC to detect changes in driver plugins.
When changes have been detected the driver index files are rebuild.
Note: you must also update the utils.cab file to v1.3 (or higher)!
- Added a dialog for saving prebuild driver index when booted from cdrom, options are
in ramdrive, drive A: or drive B:
- Don't forget to also update the utils.cab!
May 22, 2002 - v2.5
- Fixed bug in saving password to profile.
- Some memory enhancements where made. All network services (except for netbind and nmtsr) are loaded high now (thanks to Steven Bowers)
Apr 3, 2002 - v2.4
- Now auto-saving the 2 driver list files (_msnet.nic and _msnet.pci) to %srcdrv% on first boot.
Once saved to %srcdrv% this will give a very big performance boost.
Added a [rebuild] button to rebuild the driver list files when you add or delete a driver plug-in.
(thanks to George W. Sanderson from Boeing for the idea).
When booted from a CD-Rom saving and rebuilding is disabled.
- The "auto detect PCI adapter" dialog is created dynamic for this.
- Other minor changes and fixes
Mar 27, 2002 - v2.3
- Updated all modules into .cab files
- The selected network driver .cab file is now extracted in %ramdrv%\net\ folder (used to be %tmp%\ndis\).
So any additional files like la1.msg (in ibmtrp.cab) do not have to be copied using autorun.bat anymore...
Because of this the following network drivers where also updated:
ibmtrp, mdgnd, ne2000, xj10bt, xj10bt2
Mar 21, 2002
Mar 18, 2002 - v2.2
- Moved global and profiles settings to "config". You can enter
config mode by starting "msnet -c", or by "goto config" dialog or by
starting msnet again after network drivers are loaded
- Added a dialog box at the beginning for selecting "config" mode
(can be disabled in global settings)
- Edit lmhosts path mismatch, fixed
- Map drive, when using same drive as the ramdrive (%ramdrv%), no mapping is done
- Other minor changes and fixes
Network drivers are added all the time, so I'm not reporting this...
Just check
the network adapter list.
Feb 28, 2002 - v2.1f
- Minor bug fix to prevent "WBAT list @q:\tmp\_msnet.nic:_ndis text
too large (any key to continue)" error message, when some driver ndis.txt line is
to long...
- Network drivers are being added almost everyday, should not be long before
I've got a driver for every adapter on the planet
Feb 22, 2002 - v2.1e
- Enabled Netbeui protocol (removed the a "rem" - it was working all the time)
- Added dm9pci network driver
- Added sis900 network driver
Feb 20, 2002 - v2.1d
- Fixed a few bugs when only using TCP/IP protocol...
- Mxnicf.rar - the ndis.pci apparently was missing the trailing LF as it was
preventing the PCI autodetection from working
Feb 19, 2002
Feb 18, 2002
- Updated page for "Dos" module
Feb 15, 2002 - v2.1c
- Added WINS server input box to tcp parameter dialog
- Some medium cosmetic changes
Updated the page, removed the (old) msclient 1.6c sections.
Feb 11, 2002 - v2.1b
- When packet driver interface enabled, wattcp.cfg is generated
- Overall cosmetic changes
- Added -c commandline parameter (config)
- Map network drive when start msnet.bat for second time
- Logon as different user when start msnet.bat for second time
Feb 8, 2002 - v2.1
- Added packet driver interface
Feb 5, 2002
- Fixed bug in el90x.rar driver file
Feb 4, 2002
Feb 1, 2002
- v2.0 BETA - First public release for version 2.x (tested by Henk de Jong).
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