How do make a dos boot disk?

[gene]

Hello,

Total newbie here...

How do I make and work with a dos boot floppy in changing nic parameters?

I have a RH6.0 on a dedicated box with two nic cards. RH picked up the first card and pings the internet but the second nic wont boot inspite of writing a start script in

etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1

DEVICE=eth1
IPADDR=192.168.1.1
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=192.168.1.0
BROADCASST=192.168.1.255
ONBOOT=yes

/etc/conf.modules file:
alias eth0 ne
alias eth1 ne
options ne io=0x300,0x240


and setting up my ip address.

I also have three 98boxes, one box shares one of two nics to a hub so all boxes are on a cable modem.

I want to have the linux box feed the hub instead...

Everyone keeps telling me to boot with a dos disk and reconfigure the nic.

Well I wish someone would take the time to tell me how to make a dos boot floppy disk...

Then what do I do with the disk?

I really need a step-by-step explanation. The eth1 nic is a 3com Etherlink III 3C5090B.

Do I boot with a dos disk then stick a floppy of the nic's drivers in and then what?

Thanks,

Gene


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[This message has been edited by gene (edited 16 November 2000).]

[gene]

Does anyone have an answer? http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[FoBoT]

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdir.htm#howto

boot off the boot disk

run 3c5x9cfg.exe on the etherdisk you get from here
http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/3c509b.htm

set the irq=10 and mem=300
other settings may work depending on what your other hardware is using, these are the settings i use, if you have multiple cards, make sure they are all different

[This message has been edited by FoBoT (edited 16 November 2000).]

[kitcampbell]

I can't think of a -worse- NIC than that particular one. Ugh. I ended up throwing both of mine away. Afterwards, everything worked fine. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif But, good luck, those settings should, in theory, work for you. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif Note....in the config proggie by 3Com there is an option to disable Plug'n'Pray on it. That worked for me until I just got too annoyed. Anyway, good luck!

Kit

[Nandy]

To make a bootable diskette click the Start button in your windows pc. Select programs, there you will see the DosPrompt icon. Click on it to open a dos prompt windows. If you do not find it there then go back to the Start button and select run instead of Programs. In the dialog box type command.com and click ok.
If you found the DosPrompt icon the prompt will look like this:


C:\WINDOWS>


If you had to type the command in the run window it will look like this:


C:\WINDOWS\Profiles\user_name\Desktop>


It really does not matter how the prompt looks as long as you are in the dos prompt.

Then type in your prompt: format a: /s It will look like this:


C:\WINDOWS>format a: /s

Or like this:

C:\WINDOWS\Profiles\user_name\Desktop>format a: /s


Hit enter and the pc will show this:


Insert new diskette for drive A:
and press ENTER when ready...


Well, just like it says, making sure the floppy is in the drive and press enter. The system will start formating your floppy, it will look like this:


Checking existing disk format.
Verifying 1.44M
11 percent completed.


Of course the percent will be and increasing number. After it is done it will prompt you for the label. You can just type any 11 character name or do what i mostly do, just press enter... I will look like this:


Volume label (11 characters, ENTER for none)?


After you enter your label or just press enter it will give you the stat of the formated disk and will prompt you to format another. Just type y or n depending obviously on what you want to do and press enter. It will look like this:

1,457,664 bytes total disk space
386,560 bytes used by system
18,432 bytes in bad sectors
1,052,672 bytes available on disk

512 bytes in each allocation unit.
2,056 allocation units available on disk.

Volume Serial Number is 3314-18F7

Format another (Y/N)?


If you press y it will strt the process again and if you press n it will, of course, stop and take you back to your prompt. Something like this:


C:\WINDOWS>

or like this:

C:\WINDOWS\Profiles\user_name\Desktop>


You are done!!! Just type exit to go back to your windows session...

Nandy

PS- Probably i went a little too far, but i really got no idea how much you know about windows and dos. Hope it help.

[gene]

Originally posted by kitcampbell:
I can't think of a -worse- NIC than that particular one. Ugh. I ended up throwing both of mine away. Afterwards, everything worked fine. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif But, good luck, those settings should, in theory, work for you. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/wink.gif Note....in the config proggie by 3Com there is an option to disable Plug'n'Pray on it. That worked for me until I just got too annoyed. Anyway, good luck!

Kit


The 3com Etherlink III 3C5090B actually worked just fine by itself. RH picked it upand I was on the net.

Gene


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i no gashopa. i jus litle eg peka. u hep me get out a dis eg. i tipe lot a cod an be big pwin like u.