Creating an Installation Disk

When install the drivers on a computer system that does not have a floppy drive, you need to create floppy disk that serves as an installation disk. To create the installation disk, you use the MAKEDISK utility. This utility makes a floppy disk version of the drivers for Windows* (95, 98SE, Me, NT* 4.0, 2000, XP 32-bit). 

You can run MAKEDISK either from:

Running MAKEDISK from the Autorun screen

  1. Find a computer that has a floppy disk drive and a CD-ROM drive.

  2. Insert the Intel CD in the CD-ROM drive. 
    The CD autorun program starts. 

  3. Click Create Install Disk.

  4. Click the adapter type and click OK
    The Create Install Disk dialog displays.

  5. Click the targeted operating system.

  6. In the destination drive drop-down list, click the floppy disk drive. 

  7. Insert a blank floppy disk into the disk drive then click Create Disk.  

Running MAKEDISK from a command prompt window

  1. Find a computer that has a floppy disk drive and a CD-ROM drive.

  2. Insert the Intel CD in the CD-ROM drive.

  3. Insert a formatted disk into the disk drive. This drive is typically labeled A.

  4. If you are installing drivers on target systems running Windows* 98, Windows ME, or Windows 2000, select Run from the Start menu. Type the following command to create a NDIS5 version: 
    Wireless\Makedisk\Win98_2K.bat A:

  5. If you are installing drivers on target systems running Windows 95 or Windows 98, select Run from the Start menu. Type the following 
    command to create a NDIS4 and NDIS5 version:
    Wireless\Makedisk\WinAll.bat A:

  6. If you are installing drivers on target systems running Windows* XP, select Run from the Start menu. Type the following 
    command to create a NDIS4 and NDIS5 version:
    Wireless\Makedisk\WinXP.bat A:

To use the NDIS4 version for Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT* 4.0, and Windows 2000, point the path for the driver into the ROOT of the disk drive. To install the NDIS5 version into a Windows 98-based machine, use the path "a:\ndis5".


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