First post, by Deksor
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I've created a nice little NAS with a raspberry pi on my retro PCs network. It also serves as a router to the internet and also allows PCs capable of PXe boot to boot from an image from the raspberry pi
But I think that it would be very neat if I could launch a few DOS programs that are stored on the raspberry pi. I've tried many different solutions, but it doesn't really work well ... The best one that works for now is this one http://www.netbootdisk.com/
But sadly, while I can start norton ghost (which is pretty neat when it comes to hdd cloning), I can't run for example the install.exe from windows ... which is what I wanted the most to be able to do (not having to use CDs or floppy disks anymore to install the OS is really great IMO). I think that it requires an earlier version of MS-DOS in order to do that
I also tried this : http://www.windowsnetworking.com/j_helmig/dosclflp.htm but it only works with netbeui or ipx while the raspberry pi requires TCP/IP to communicate. I think that using a 2.88 floppy image instead of 1.44 floppy image to install microsoft network client 3 with TCP/IP could work, but I can't create it because I don't have 2.88" drives or 2.88" floppy disks (well I have the drives now, but I still don't own any floppy of that size nor computer that uses the interface that my drives have)
The network card that I'm using is a 3com 3c905b-tx
Do you think that this would be feasable ?
I also tried to boot from a windows 98 CD image from the network, but it never ever worked sadly ... (I tried many solutions too)
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