DOS driver for Belkin F5D5000 NIC?

I'm getting a new 80 GB internal hard drive (as a slave) to put some Ghost images on, and I'd like to backup both desktop computers on my home network. One is WinXP, the other is Win98. I realize that a second internal hard drive is just as suseptible to failure, but I've tried putting drive images with NTI Backup Now! 2.5.14 onto CD, but they errored out by the second or 3rd disc. (They were HP CD-R 48x 80 min CDs, unless I got a bad batch, but they've worked for other programs). I want to put the images on a second drive, then burn them to CD for double protection. Dell so kindly put a 40MB recovery partition on the XP machine's HD, thereby removing NTI's drive image capability (it can only image a one partion HD). That's what I get for buying an older version for cheap.

I think I've found the DOS drivers for the Belkin F5D5000 NIC on driverguide.com, but haven't tried them, mainly because I don't know how to create a network boot disk for DOS. I'm going to share the new drive for the images and want to have the disk map the slave drive, then let me write to it. Obviously, the XP machine that shares the drive will be on. I'm thinking to conserve disk space, I'll just gdisk, format, and sys the drive to make it bootable (if needed) and do the sharing through my XP machine which would have the drive in it. Should I just start with a regular (say Win98) boot floppy and play around with the autoexec.bat and config.sys files to load the drivers? Should I try to modify a boot floppy from Bart's Network Book Disk ? I realize the easiest way would be to put the new drive in the Win98 machine, and I'll do that as a last resort, but I'd like to learn how to get this to work over a network. I know, I'm sick and twisted like that. Actually, we use a setup similar to this at my university, and I'm trying to learn as much as I can, since desktop support is my *gulp* chosen field.

Any help would be appreciated. If I forgot something in the description, please tell me.

 

Ha! I found a nice tutorial on how to make a Win9x network boot floppy. Now, to find out if it'll work for me. Here's a link: http://www.lpt.com/windowsnetworking/regusers/w9xbtflp.htm

 

I think I'm heading in the right direction now. Now I'm getting an "Open failure" when the process is trying to access protocol.ini. And I think I need netbeui.dos in order to get everything working. I've tried using netbeui.vxd, but I doubt that works in DOS.

Any ideas?

 

Ok, by luck, I tried using the w/ CD rom support, which seems to work. I had edited out all the CD stuff, but eh, I'm using that as the safe config. Now I no longer get the Open failure message, but get a 7361 (I believe) message when trying this command: net start workstation. It says something about IPX/NetBIOS is needed to complete the operation. It has already completed net init, net start, and net bind by that time. Ideas?

 

I found how to start NetBEUI and IPX. I used net start netbeui and net start ipx. Should I use both or one?

The next error message is # 53. It says it could not locate a computer with the name specified. Try again later, the machine may have been restarted.
Well, I thought maybe my firewall was causing a problem, but even with it turned off, I still get the error. I'm trying to map a shared hard drive, the share name is "images", so the command should be: net use z: \\new\images - right? Would the problem be that it is a slave HD with no OS? I have the computer "new" turned on when I'm trying this, but I haven't tried mapping other shares on the computer since they would be NTFS and I'm using a Win98 boot floppy.