Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!remus.rutgers.edu!cousens From: cousens@remus.rutgers.edu (Scott Cousens) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: cloning COMSPEC? Keywords: look elsewhere for command.com Message-ID: Date: 20 Feb 91 01:13:10 GMT Distribution: na Organization: Rutgers U. - New Joisey Lines: 24 I am trying to create a startup disk for use on a network with a computer with no HD. After starting up the network programs, I would like to be able to take the startup disk away, and have the whole thing run off the network drive. I have set COMSPEC=L:\COMMAND.COM but this does not always work. After exiting from programs such as WordPerfect or Lotus 123, the computer trys to load COMMAND.COM from A:\ (root directory of my boot drive) not from L:\COMMAND.COM as I had hoped. BTW: Our server is IBM Model 80 running Novell Netware 386 Rev A. off an an IBM Token Ring network. The work station is an IBM Model 25 with DOS 3.3 and 2 floppy drives. Drive L: is mapped to a network directory containing COMMAND.COM Is there any way around this, or will I have to keep my startup disk in the machine. tnx -scott -- Scott Cousens, N3FXP | Internet: cousens@remus.rutgers.edu I hate .signatures | Bitnet : cousens@cancer.BITNET