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prac2 09-04-2002 08:48 PM

Re: Loading OS via remote CD-rom
 
Hello Everyone,
I have a laptop with no CD-rom. What I want to do is load an operating system from a client on a network with a CD-rom. I assume I have to initialise the hardware on the laptop first, then access the CD-rom via the network. Firstly, how do I make a boot floppy for the laptop that initialises the PCMCIA ethernet card, then, how do I connect to the CD-rom accross the network?

TIA

prac2

DavidPhillips 09-04-2002 10:47 PM

you need the pcmcia.img image on the floppy, you can use rawrite to make the floppy in windows or dd in linux


then you need a server.

windows can be an http server using pws. that's the easiest way with windows. or if you have windows 2000 pro, nt server , xp pro you could also use the ftp server


or if you have linux you can use it as a server for http, ftp, or nfs

DavidPhillips 09-04-2002 10:51 PM

setup the laptop ip static if you do not have a dhcp server on the network

be sure to set the laptop's ip to be on the same network as your server.


setup the server to share the cdrom on http://serverip/name

then start network install
for server name just use the servers ip
access the cdrom by the name

prac2 09-05-2002 04:02 PM

thanks for that. I did a rawrite on pcmcia.img and bootnet.img, but after the kernel has loaded, the laptop says:

running install....
running /sbin/loader
install exited abnormally - recieved signal 11

I tried the disks on another machine, and it went through OK!

Any ideas what might be causing this?

TIA

prac2

prac2 09-05-2002 05:14 PM

Ok, I tried an older version of pcmcia.img and it worked ok with my old laptop. Thanks for your help David.

prac2

DavidPhillips 09-05-2002 08:44 PM

Glad you got it

Post the versions and the laptop if you have time.

Sounds like some useful info.

prac2 09-05-2002 09:07 PM

I have a
100CS Toshiba laptop
Xircom CreditCard ethernet adapter
40MB ram
RH 7.2 pcmcia.img bootable floppy
RH 7.2 pcmciadd.img bootable floppy

now the problem is that when I load the pcmcia.img floppy, it boots OK, but then it asks for a driver for the pcmcia card, which I asume is on the other CD, but when I go to load it, I recieve no confirmation or warning, and it asks for the bootable images, but only has a hard-disk option. I didn't even get to give it an IP or mask!

What am I doing wrong? Where do I get the drivers to initialise the PCMCIA card and connect to the NFS daemon on the server?

Please help

TIA

prac2

DavidPhillips 09-05-2002 09:38 PM

I believe that card is unsupported

If it is properly detected then after booting with the pcmcia.img you will get a menu to select NFS, FTP, HTTP, CDROM, or Hard disk

search for your card to see if anything new on it has come out

DavidPhillips 09-05-2002 09:42 PM

Alt-F3 should give you more info


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