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You may create boot disk manually using dd or cat. The client boot files are installed in "/opt/var/opt/aptus/boot" directory. By default, 3 types of files are provided named "<net-device>.lz*".
The file named with "<net-device>.lzdsk" are boot floppy images suitable for creating boot floppies. You can create with the dd command, example dd if=/opt/var/opt/aptus/boot/rtl8139.lzdsk of=/dev/fd0 will create an Aptus Client boot floppy for Realtek 8139 network card.
The file named with "<net-device>.com" are DOS program that will launch the Aptus client from real mode DOS. It is useful when you Aptus client has a hard drive with Windows/DOS and you can launch it by running this file in real-mode.
The file named with "<net-device>.lzrom" is a boot rom image that you can burn it into eeprom and stick it into the network adapter. Most of the network adapter today have a boot ROM slot. If you are running an on-board built-in network adapter, you can try to modify your system bios to flash-in your boot ROM.
