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Special Forums Windows & DOS: Issues & Discussions Tricky one... Post 32994 by saabir on Thursday 12th of December 2002 11:03:44 AM
Old 12-12-2002
Tricky one...
Here's my problem:

I have a laptop running Windows XP Pro with no internal CD or Floppy drives. I want to install Linux on it. I don't care about the Windows XP Pro installation, in fact I would like to install Linux over the entirety of the HD. However I cannot boot from any external CD drive (via USB, PCMCIA, Firewire) as my BIOS does not support this (the drive is not detected soon enough to be used as a boot device). I have another Windows XP machine with a CD drive as well as a DVD drive. If I network the two is it possible to boot the laptop from the installation disk loaded into the CD/DVD drive of the other machine? If so, how would I accomplish this?

Many thanks for any advice.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

ex

EX(4)							 BSD/i386 Kernel Interfaces Manual						     EX(4)

NAME

     ex -- Ethernet device driver for the Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 and Pro/10+

SYNOPSIS

     To compile this driver into the kernel, place the following line in your kernel configuration file:

	   device ex

     Alternatively, to load the driver as a module at boot time, place the following line in loader.conf(5):

	   if_ex_load="YES"

DESCRIPTION

     The ex driver provides support for Ethernet adapters based on the Intel i82595 chip.

     On the ISA bus, the card will be searched for in the I/O address range 0x200 - 0x3a0.  The IRQ will be read from the EEPROM on the card.  For
     correct operation Plug-N-Play support should be disabled.

     On the PC Card bus, the card will be automatically recognized and configured.

HARDWARE

     The ex driver supports the following Ethernet adapters:

     o	 Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 ISA
     o	 Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ ISA
     o	 Olicom OC2220 Ethernet PC Card
     o	 Olicom OC2232 Ethernet/Modem PC Card
     o	 Silicom Ethernet LAN PC Card
     o	 Silicom EtherSerial LAN PC Card

DIAGNOSTICS

     ex%d: Intel EtherExpress Pro/10, address %6D, connector %s  The device probe found an installed card, and was able to correctly install the
     device driver.

     ex%d: WARNING: board's EEPROM is configured for IRQ %d, using %d  The device probe detected that the board is configured for a different
     interrupt than the one specified in the kernel configuration file.

     ex%d: invalid IRQ.  The device probe detected an invalid IRQ setting.

SEE ALSO

     arp(4), netintro(4), ng_ether(4), ifconfig(8)

HISTORY

     The ex device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.

AUTHORS

     The ex device driver was written by Javier Martin Rueda.  The PC Card attachment was written by Mitsuru ISAWAKI and Warner Losh.  This manual
     page was written by David E. O'Brien.

BUGS

     Currently the driver does not support multicast.

     The Silicom EtherSerial card's serial port does not currently work.  The Olicom OC2232 PC Card should work with the ex driver, but is cur-
     rently completely broken.

BSD
								   July 16, 2005							       BSD
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