booting through LAN

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The cd rom drive for my compaq pressario notebook is not working and
operting system got corrupted. How can install operating system through
lan .In the BIOS there is an option for boot through lan.I have a usb
cd rom drive also but there is no option in BIOS "boot through usb
device".

please help if anybody has solutions

 

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On 6 Jan 2005 11:57:07 -0800, dipankar_v@yahoo.com wrote:

>The cd rom drive for my compaq pressario notebook is not working and
>operting system got corrupted. How can install operating system through
>lan .In the BIOS there is an option for boot through lan.I have a usb
>cd rom drive also but there is no option in BIOS "boot through usb
>device".


Well, LAN boot requires a boot server, and I am guessing you don't
want to spend the $$$ and time to set one up to solve this problem.

For your amusement, laptops come with recovery CDs. This is basically
a clean installed image of the OS with everything on it, including all
the Compaq-specific drivers. A generic OS CD usually is not enough,
specially with custom-crazed Compaqs.

If I were u, I would have made myself a Floopy Boot with network
drivers BEFORE this happened. Now, it's alot harder..

Borrow a CD drive, or just pay $50 for a tech at Best Buys to do this
for you would be the less painful of all solutions I can think of.

 

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dipankar_v@yahoo.com wrote:

> The cd rom drive for my compaq pressario notebook is not working and
> operting system got corrupted. How can install operating system through
> lan .In the BIOS there is an option for boot through lan.I have a usb
> cd rom drive also but there is no option in BIOS "boot through usb
> device".
>
> please help if anybody has solutions

If you want to boot through the LAN then you need to find out which boot
protocol your machine uses (if it's recent it's probably bootp, but if it's
older it might be something else), then configure a server with that
protocol and an appropriate boot file.

If you want an educational experience by all means go for it, if you want to
get your machine running then just get the drive fixed.

--
--John
Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net
(was jclarke at eye bee em dot net)

 

[Bob]

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I bet you could find another drive from EBay.

Bob


"bobb" <None@NoWhere.com> wrote in message
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> On 6 Jan 2005 11:57:07 -0800, dipankar_v@yahoo.com wrote:
>
>>The cd rom drive for my compaq pressario notebook is not working and
>>operting system got corrupted. How can install operating system through
>>lan .In the BIOS there is an option for boot through lan.I have a usb
>>cd rom drive also but there is no option in BIOS "boot through usb
>>device".
>
>
> Well, LAN boot requires a boot server, and I am guessing you don't
> want to spend the $$$ and time to set one up to solve this problem.
>
> For your amusement, laptops come with recovery CDs. This is basically
> a clean installed image of the OS with everything on it, including all
> the Compaq-specific drivers. A generic OS CD usually is not enough,
> specially with custom-crazed Compaqs.
>
> If I were u, I would have made myself a Floopy Boot with network
> drivers BEFORE this happened. Now, it's alot harder..
>
> Borrow a CD drive, or just pay $50 for a tech at Best Buys to do this
> for you would be the less painful of all solutions I can think of.
>

 

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dipankar_v@yahoo.com wrote:
> The cd rom drive for my compaq pressario notebook is not working and
> operting system got corrupted. How can install operating system
through
> lan .In the BIOS there is an option for boot through lan.I have a usb
> cd rom drive also but there is no option in BIOS "boot through usb
> device".
>
> please help if anybody has solutions
that happened to me too. it's toast. have hem fix the cd.

-sg