Desktop

Ask something
Discussion Locked

PCMCIA Boot

0 helpful
2 replies

by genecideshere

Closed to new repliesThis discussion is closed. It stays readable, but it takes no new replies.

I have a toshiba satellite pro sp2100 laptop that has been dropped, and in the resulting aftermath the DVD writer and the onboard NIC are no longer functional.
I however have a PCMCIA NIC that has worked fine with it
The only problem is that when setting up a RIS install of XP i went to boot from the PCMCIA and had no joy, there is no bios setting to boot from pcmcia, so I thought I'd go down the boot disk road, but have run in to debates as to if it is even possible
I have server 2003 installing XP Pro on the laptop, if anyone can point me in the right direction it would be greatly appreciated

2 replies

by robo_dev

Maybe your DVD drive just needs to be unplugged and replugged to get it to work?

If your PC supports booting from USB, I would suggest getting a USB CD-ROM drive and instlling XP from the CD.

by zaferus

For our laptops we use a USB floppy drive boot disk with the NIC drivers. After loading the NIC drivers it then maps a drive on the system with the image we want to load. I'm not sure if this will work with RIS - but you should be able to at least get an OS on there by running the setup command or using ghost (which is what we do).

This discussion is closed to new replies.