Allrighty Sir 'Boot, you twisted my arm,
it's a computer set up from an image on a client/server network - with pointers that, IMHO, are unavailable - the typical setup it is not.
My attempt to try it on another workstation with the same configuration gave the same results. Quite frankly I won't put further effort in getting this to work but I wanted to include those results to show that if the procedure fails, the OS isn't going to be caughing blood - it is forgiving.