thanks (ockham23). i`m going to try the floppy/cd of network booting. i see i can make/get the floppy image from http://www.rom-o-matic.net/5.4.0/ but i can olny pick one network card at a time is there a way i can have them all?? what i would like to do is, at boot it would autodetect the nic (network card) and load the driver. is there a way i can do this?????

thanks
ryan