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Qual-IT
Qual-IT offers the Instant Network Boot Disk, which, it claims, supports any NDIS-compatible network card. Qual-IT boasts that its network boot disk is the fastest and most reliable available. You can also customize the boot disk to suit your needs, and you can create separate .ini files for different configurations.
The boot disk supports all Windows operating systems and includes network-troubleshooting utilities.
Version 7.51 of the Instant Network Boot Disk is currently available on the site, and Qual-IT is working on version 7.60.
Netboot CD
Netboot CD presents you with the files to create a bootable CD. The current version available is 1.40, and the site says it supports over 170 NICs. The download includes a README file describing the contents and a number of programs and utilities you may need, including archive programs such as PKZip, a terminal program, and an Fdisk utility. All software included in the download is freeware or shareware.
Though many donÂ’t recommend using bootable CDs, you may find this one to include a useful set of boot utilities.
BovisTech
BovisTech offers a variety of boot disk files for download, including TCP/IP, NetBEUI, and IPX disks.
Among the downloads is a network boot disk creation utility developed by George Bewley—he says it’s so good it may put him out of business. Bewley describes his BootNet as a flexible utility that can be modified for any NIC. Currently compatible with Window ME, 95 OSR2, NT4, and Win2K, BootNet is also being tested on WinXP and Win 98.
The Web site also includes screenshots of the utility, though when I visited the site, the screens were not displaying correctly. The current version of BootNet is 1.01.
Bart
BartÂ’s Boot Disks on NU2 is one of the more popular boot disk sites among the members we heard from. BartÂ’s downloads include a modular boot disk, MODBOOT, that allows you to add functionality by copying files and programs from modules to specific folders on the boot disk. For example, Bart explains that you can add DOS mouse support by copying Mouse.cab to a specific folder on the disk. Because of the customizability, BartÂ’s MODBOOT is a very powerful utility.
The site includes a network boot disk that also features a modular system for customizing it. You can use the disk to connect to network shares on Windows, Linux, or Samba machines. Bart also offers a CD-ROM boot disk and a SCSI boot disk and presents tips on creating boot disks.
BartÂ’s Boot Disks is a great site and possibly the only one youÂ’ll ever need because all of the downloads allow you to customize disks according to your needs.
The easy way
If you like to be more in control of your boot disks, go ahead and make your own. But if you want to save some time and effort, creating any boot disk you need is only a few mouse clicks away.
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