Not sure where this would go, so I'm posting it here as well as the networking forum...
Situation. There's a laptop with no CD drive that's connected to the network through a built in NIC. The drive needs to be completely wiped and a fresh OS installed. No data backup necessary. How could one format the laptop and install the new OS, assuming that the i386 dir is stored on the network?
I was thinking of booting with a floppy containing the NIC driver for the laptop, and some kind of batch file to connect to the volume on the network where the i386 dir is stored. Would this work? My programming skills are nill... what would the batch file look like? Alternatively, is there another way I should be doing this?
Thanks in advance for the help.
Situation. There's a laptop with no CD drive that's connected to the network through a built in NIC. The drive needs to be completely wiped and a fresh OS installed. No data backup necessary. How could one format the laptop and install the new OS, assuming that the i386 dir is stored on the network?
I was thinking of booting with a floppy containing the NIC driver for the laptop, and some kind of batch file to connect to the volume on the network where the i386 dir is stored. Would this work? My programming skills are nill... what would the batch file look like? Alternatively, is there another way I should be doing this?
Thanks in advance for the help.
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