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by grandfou

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I want to install windows on a laptop. The problem is that my windows installation files are located ont the network. I have a DOS network client disk is built and functional. The driver needed for my 3c574-tx is on the disk protocol.ini and system.ini has been modified to reflect the needed for my network and driver I am using. My question is how can I enable card services on a laptop so my nic driver can find the pcmcia nic card. Thanx!!!

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by write2pam

If you have a computer on the network with the same specs you can ghost the one that is working properly and place the image on the network. Then take the NIC card from the working laptop (if it is different from the target laptop) and put it in the target laptop. While Ghosting you will be able to create a boot disk. Boot from that disk and it will connect you to the network so that you can install Windows. We do this all the time when we configure our new laptops.

Good Luck

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