Driver Installation - Lan Disk - HP Vectra VL6 7 Administrator's Manual

Driver Installation - LAN Disk

In most cases, driver installation instructions assume that the HP Ethernet Family
Adapter drivers use a directory structure which has been setup to correspond with
the paths that network operating systems search for during the installation process.
Consequently, a "LAN Disk" is provided with your PC containing the directory
structure you need for automatic installation. This LAN Disk can be made up of one
or two diskettes, according to the LAN adapter provided with your PC.
When your PC is not supplied with a separate LAN Disk, the network drivers are
stored on your hard disk or on a "Drivers CD-ROM" in different subdirectories.
If you have the "Drivers CD-ROM", you can install the network drivers from the CD-
ROM.
If the network drivers are on the hard disk, you have to create the LAN Disk using
the Windows Master Diskette Creation utility.
This HP Ethernet Family Adapter LAN Disk can then be used to install the network
driver for your particular network operating system. We recommend that you make
a note of the directories present on each disk.
NOTE This diskette will be referred to as the "LAN Disk" in the installation procedures.
If you download the HP Ethernet Family Adapter drivers from the World Wide Web,
follow the instructions provided to expand the driver directory structure either onto
your hard disk or onto flexible disks.
The installation instructions, detailed in other documents, are intended to provide
examples for easy installation. However, the procedure for your particular network
configuration may vary. Refer to the network software's user's manuals for specific
instructions to load additional drivers from proprietary diskettes.
Driver Installation for
The HP Net Vectra has no flexible disk drive. When using the driver installation
procedures for the Net Vectra, all references to flexible disks should be mapped to a
the HP Net Vectra
virtual disk drive.
1 Setting Up the Network Connection
Network Driver Software
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