Novell Shareware

Automatic Boot Recovery v1.4 for lonely PC's in a Novell network. Use it for Dial-in PC's, gateways and other operator-less machines. Author: Aad Slingerland 6k DOS

Nowadays end users don't run much Dos applications anymore. But system operators and PC technicians still use Dos applications to manage PC's. You could say that they use it as their tools. So for these people it is important to have the tools they need available on all PC's in the company.

Features:

• Boot and run the dos applications you need from any workstation, with floppy and CD-Rom drive or floppy and network adapter.
• Choose to boot from bootable CD-Rom or Floppy disk.
• Choose to run dos applications from CD-Rom or Network.
• Boot ERD Commander 2002 (from CD only) for recovery or virus scan.
• Run Disk Commander v1.1 (from CD only) for data recovery.
• The bootable CD-Rom is built and burned 100% automatic no other recording software needed. When storing the files on a server you can build/burn a bootable CD-Rom from any NT workstation with a burner.
• All floppy images are built 100% automatically, no need to insert a physical floppy disk, no need for a disk imaging tool like winimage or so. You can also build a physical floppy disk.
• Single point of maintenance. Even for the floppy bootdisk images. There is a special option to "rebuild" all floppy bootdisk images used on all your bootable CD's.

The idea started about two years ago and I've been building and collecting the right software and information ever since. I'm very pleased that it is ready and working now.

As you know (or may not know) most of Bart's solutions you can find on the nu2.nu website are based on putting the right (freeware) tools together in the right way. When the tools don't fit or when something is missing, Bart fixes it by creating the missing part or by changing existing tools, so the wanted solution will work like it should. And as you can see, Bart can code just about anything.

Installation and Un-installation:

Hardware requirements:

The very minimal is a Windows NT4.0, 2000 or XP workstation with a CD-writer (home-user). You cannot creat corporate modboot on a Windows 9x/ME workstation!
But to use the maximum power of corporate modboot a Windows NT4/2000/XP or Linux/Samba server is also required (company-user).

Installation instructions:

In the instructions below we will be using the directory d:\bcd to install the software, but you can use any other location you like. When using a linux/samba server you should use something like /bcd instead of d:\bcd.

Download Location:

Download Location 2: Automatic Boot Recovery v1.4