Please, Is there anyone who knows how to do this. I am at the end of my tether!!!

I must be getting to the position where i have visited nearly every archive to do with dos \ windows diskless systems. I am still a little way from my goal.

I now have my client load bpbatch from my suse linux server using a 3com 3c905c net card PXE.

My problem is in how to constuct the scripts and disk images.

My client has no drives, just a netcard and 256mb Ram.

Using bpbatch what do i load first?
io.sys, msdos.sys, command.com, I think?

Do I build these with mrzip and make a dos.imz file?
I have tried this, then loaded back to the client within my start.bpb file using:
loadramdisk "dos.imz", The client reports:
Loading ramdisk image...
"<size>Kb loaded to the ramdisk.
However I think I should be using loadZramdisk "dos.imz", but receiver the error:
Bad compressed ramdisk image
After loading I then tried to boot the client using:
floppyboot
But the system hangs with the message:
Warning: no boot record signature
Booting from floppy disk (Ram disk I think)

I am would like to use XMSDSK Ramdisk, and think I should be loaded with autoexec.bat.

Can some please, please help me, any examples of *.bpb *.bat *.sys file would also be most helpful.

Many thanks
Ian.

Sorry. Never used it. But have you tried the bpbatch forum?
http://www.bpbatch.org/forum/

As mentioned in my post, I have search every resource on the net, I think!, With bpbatch beening the first choice. I can not believe that this subject is so rare.

Every posting I have made so far has either not been answered or answered by someone telling me that they can not help, I find this very irritating as it gives the appearance that the post as been answered.

I have know spent two weeks trying to resolve this, and are determined not to be beaten. I have now used at least 15 search engines, and spent over 35 hours hours browsing and experimenting. There seem to be very little documentation on this subject, even the best document (remote-boot/howto) skips the diskless part. I understand Windoze is a litle taboo on a linux site, but It is beening served by a linux system.

Regards
Ian.