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>I have no idea what it will take to do this.

>My sense is that I'll need to load something first to recognize and handle the
>PCMCIA card and then I'll need to load some network drivers and finally, I'll
>need something to establish a connection and map the share (or NFS exported
>filesystem) to a drive letter.

>Once I get that far I intend to load a utility that will grab a disk image
>from the server machine and replicate that image onto my notebook.  I've got
>my hands on that utility.  It's the only part of this equation that
>I understand.

>I need to do this with a pair of notebooks, one Toshiba 400CDT and one
>Toshiba 430 CDT.  Each of the notebooks make use of a Xircom CE3B-100BTX
>running at 10 Mbps.

>How should I proceed?

>Is there any obvious reason technical reason why this can't be done?

>-- Rich

>If you're trying to load Linux onto the Notebooks, here's an outline of it.

>If you have both a floppy drive & RedHat 5.1,  I know
>that you can mount an SMB share using RH5.1's install.  You'll need to
>make the "supp.img" diskette to get the PCMCIA to work.  If you have a far out
>PCMCIA controller, it might not, but it can't hurt to try.  One thing,
>to my knowledge, Xircom cards are not supported by Linux because Xircom doesn't
>freely disclose info. on their PC Cards.  If this has changed, great, but I
>don't think they'll bend.  

>Now,  All you have to do is share the Root directory of the cdrom on an NT
>or SAMBA server and RedHat installs.  Example: \\WindozeSrvr\cdrom

>If you're trying to do something else, like image a Micro$oft OS onto the
>notebooks, I've done that a lot.  But I always use Netware client echniques
>since I found LANManager for DOS useless and of limited support.  Then I just
>write batch files to automate the process...

>Hope that helps.

>Jim

>>I need to configure a boot diskette for a Toshiba notebook with a PCMCIA
>>network card to boot into MS-DOS and load enough software to map a drive
>>letter to a SAMBA network share (or, if it would be easier, an NFS exported
>>filesystem) hosted on a Linux machine.

>>I have no idea what it will take to do this.

>>My sense is that I'll need to load something first to recognize and handle the

>>PCMCIA card and then I'll need to load some network drivers and finally, I'll
>>need something to establish a connection and map the share (or NFS exported
>>filesystem) to a drive letter.

>>Once I get that far I intend to load a utility that will grab a disk image
>>from the server machine and replicate that image onto my notebook.  I've got
>>my hands on that utility.  It's the only part of this equation that
>>I understand.

>>I need to do this with a pair of notebooks, one Toshiba 400CDT and one
>>Toshiba 430 CDT.  Each of the notebooks make use of a Xircom CE3B-100BTX
>>running at 10 Mbps.

>>How should I proceed?

>>Is there any obvious reason technical reason why this can't be done?

>>-- Rich