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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Ok, I tried an older version of pcmcia.img and it worked ok with my old laptop. Thanks for your help David.
prac2 |
Glad you got it
Post the versions and the laptop if you have time. Sounds like some useful info. |
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 |
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 |
Alt-F3 should give you more info
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