goldenfleece Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 Got a 'barebones' new PC which I am setting up for a friend.....it has no floppy drive or CD ROM installed and I dont have any spare ones to temporarily install.....can I connect up the machine to the LAN and run an XP setup from a CD ROM on another machine on the LAN? Is this possible to boot from a LAN and directly access the CD drive on a LAN machine? Its only a basic network on a standard router....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 Some motherboards have a boot from network option so if yours has try that, not sure how to do it but google may provide some answers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esme Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 you can boot from the network but your network card needs to support it and you need a machine thats already up to serve the O/S back to the booting PC and I've never seen anyone set that up outside a major corporation. more usually a floppy disk boot would get you a basic O/S and allow you to access network drives, but you don't have an FDD so you are a bit stuffed best solution would be a temporary install of a CD/DVD drive but again you don't have one to sort this quickly I would suggest is to lash out a tenner or so and get yourself a cheap DVD-ROM drive and use that to install the O/S then keep it for spare, emergencies and the next time you need to install on a system with no removable media eBuyer do one and CCL do one so I'm sure you wouldn't have any trouble finding one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goldenfleece Posted September 26, 2006 Author Share Posted September 26, 2006 I can take one out of my other spare machine and use it temporarily.....just thought it might be possible from a LAN but seems a bit complex.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
esme Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 it is possible but it isn't simple, you are better off using a physical drive the amount of computer related work you seem to do I'm surprised you haven't got a spare drive lying around tho hope you get it sorted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alkatraz Posted September 26, 2006 Share Posted September 26, 2006 Or - in a real bind, perform the initial install on the disk in another computer.. as soon as you hit the first reboot, take the disk out and put it back in t'other box. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Archived
This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.