Creating an Installation Disk

# Make an Installation Diskette

Installation disks are useful when you are loading drivers on systems that do not have a CD drive or a network connection. You can create installation disks using the MAKEDISK utility or by directly copying the appropriate files to a floppy disk.

The MAKEDISK utility copies the appropriate driver software for desktop, server, and mobile LAN products, for the following operating systems:

- Microsoft* Windows*

- NetWare* (from the command prompt only)

- DOS and OS/2*

NOTES:

- Intel® PRO/10GbE adapters do not support driver and software installation from diskettes.

- Some of these installations may require two floppy disks.

You can run MAKEDISK from either a command prompt or the autorun program on the Product CD. If you downloaded the software package from the support website, extracting the files automatically starts the autorun program.

### Running MAKEDISK from the Autorun screen

1. Insert the Product CD in the CD-ROM drive. The CD's autorun program automatically starts. If you are starting with a downloaded installation package, navigate to the respective directory using your Windows Explorer program.

2. To start the autorun program manually, double-click Autorun.exe in the root directory of the CD or downloaded software package.

3. Click Make Driver Disk. The Intel® PRO Adapter Install Disk Creation window is displayed.

4. Select the target operating system in the "Copy files for" box. The target operating system is the operating system running on the target system. At some point in the future, you can use the installation disk you created in this process to install drivers on this system.

5. In the Adapter Type box, select the type of adapter you will be installing.

6. If the correct drive is not displayed in the Destination box, click the Browse button and select the correct drive.

7. Insert a disk into the disk drive then click Copy.

8. Repeat steps 4 through 7 until you have created all necessary installation disks.

9. Click Exit.

### Running MAKEDISK from a command prompt window

1. Insert a formatted floppy disk in your disk drive.

2. Open a command prompt window.

3. In the command prompt window, switch to the CD drive. If you downloaded the software from the website, navigate to the download directory. For example, type:
   E: <Enter>

4. Change the active directory to \APPS\MAKEDISK.

5. At the command line type:
   MAKEDISK [operating system] [destination (optional)] [silent (optional)] <Enter>

where [operating system] is the operating system driver to be copied, and [destination] is the destination drive letter (e.g., A:). If you want this program to run in silent mode, add the text silent to the end of the command line. In silent mode, warnings are not displayed and the batch file will not wait for user input. Use the parameter listed below that matches your operating system, adapter type, and computing platform:

| Intel® PRO/1000 adapters | Intel® PRO/100 adapters
Operating System | IA-32 | Intel® EM64T platforms | Itanium®-based platforms | IA-32 | Intel® EM64T platforms | Itanium-based platforms
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 | WS03XP2KGIG | WS0332EGIG | WS03XP64GIG | WS03XP2KFE | WS0332EFE | WS03XP64FE
Microsoft Windows XP | WS03XP2KGIG | WS0332EGIG | WS03XP64GIG | WS03XP2KFE | WS0332EFE | WS03XP64FE
Microsoft Windows 2000 | WS03XP2KGIG | n/a | n/a | WS03XP2KFE | n/a | n/a
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 | NT | n/a | n/a | NT | n/a | n/a
Microsoft Windows 95, 98, ME | W9X | n/a | n/a | W9X | n/a | n/a
Novell Netware | NW | n/a | n/a | NW | n/a | n/a
Microsoft MS-DOS* and IBM* OS/2 | DOS | n/a | n/a | DOS | n/a | n/a

| NOTE: If you select Windows NT 4.0, MAKEDISK copies Intel® PROSet as well as the base driver files, and requires two floppy disks. For all other Windows versions, only the drivers are copied, and require one floppy disk. NetWare and DOS selections also require one floppy disk.

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