[MLB-WIRELESS] Enterasys Win98 setup help please

[James Healy]

Or just change the directory its looking in to c:\windows\system (or
whatever)

James

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tony Langdon" <tlangdon at atctraining.com.au>
To: "'Michael Borthwick'" <holden at netspace.net.au>
Cc: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 11:49 AM
Subject: RE: [MLB-WIRELESS] Enterasys Win98 setup help please


> >
> > Just giving the newly arrived Enterasys cards a workout.
> >
> > Halfway trhough the Win98 "Add new hardware wizard", after I
> > have loaded the drivers apparently
> > successfuly, it asks for the Win98 SE CD and wants to load
> > some .CAB files, the first one starts with
> > dhcp....
> >
> > Naturally it can't find them
> >
> > The *path* it presents in the file dialog starts with C: even
> > though it asks for CD
> >
> > I can find no cab files on the CD anywhere
> >
> > And this is the OS version where they achieved user interface
> > ease-of-use parity with the Mac ?
>
> OK, Windows has this quirk that whenever you change _anything_ n the
> networking, even just the machine name, it wants to reload all the
> networking files off CD!!!!  If you already had networking installed, it
is
> usually safe to skip the files (zillions of them, use ALT-S held down
:) ).
>
> But it is the actual Windows CD it's looking for at that stage, not the
> driver CD.
>
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