RE: Regarding net boot... Please help

["Venkata Prasad Chirreddy \(cvprasad\)" <cvprasad@cisco.com>]

Hi,
Thanks
I have used el90x.dos and I did not get the error message.

Now when I tried to boot, it says "Bootrom error : PXE-40" and then says
"network boot failde".
What could be the reason?

Thanks in advance

Bye
Venkataprasad


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-netboot@baghira.han.de [mailto:owner-netboot@baghira.han.de]
On Behalf Of Gero Kuhlmann
Sent: Thursday, December 25, 2003 4:29 PM
To: netboot@baghira.han.de
Subject: Re: Regarding net boot... Please help


Hello,

On Thu, 25 Dec 2003 03:14:54 +0100, Venkata Prasad Chirreddy (cvprasad)
wrote:
> In that case, I had to get the required NIC driver and
> PROTOCOL.INI file required by it. I downloaded the 3c90b-TX driver
> (3c90x2.exe from 3com website) and put it in the required directory. 
> 8.	then when I ran the s/w, it said "the DOS program reqires too
much
> memory and aborted the process"

Well, you downloaded an archive file from the 3Com web site. This file
3c90x2.exe is a self-extracting packed ZIP file which has to get
unpacked
first. If you have DOS, just run this exe file under DOS, and it will
extract all files. If you don't have DOS, you can use the unzip program
which comes with most (if not all) Linux distributions. This unzip
program
is able to unpack self-extracting archives as well.
Once you extracted all files from the archive you will find a file
called
el90x.dos in some subdirectory which is the NDIS2 driver you need.
Alter-
natively, you can also use the file 3c90xpd.com which is a DOS packet
driver and which is also contained within this archive. It also works
with
netboot, but is a little bit buggy, so you should better use the NDIS2
driver.
I'm using a couple of 3C905B and 3C905C with these drivers without
problem.

gero.

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