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C
HAPTER
2: C
USTOM
I
NSTALLATION
S
ETUP
FOR
W
INDOWS
95/98
Performing the Preinstallation Procedure
Preinstallation is important for proper setup of your
Windows 95/98 system environment. It deletes the default
.INF file and the default Windows driver for the NIC.
You must perform this procedure to ensure that the latest
NIC driver and the 3Com NIC Diagnostics program
(a Windows-based program) can be successfully installed. If
you do not perform preinstallation, the 3Com Installation
Wizard will not run successfully.
Follow these steps to perform the preinstallation procedure:
1 Turn the PC power on and boot Windows 95/98.
2 Click
Start
in the Windows 95/98 taskbar, and then
click
Run
.
3 Insert
EtherDisk
diskette 2
in drive A, and then enter:
a:\preinstl
4 Click
OK
.
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If your PC supports the Windows 95/98 Plug and Play
feature, the Preinstallation Software screen appears, as
shown in
Figure 7
, displaying a list of available IRQs.
Click
OK
. The next step is to install the NIC in your PC
(see
Chapter 1
). Then go to “
NIC Configuration in a
Windows 95/98 Plug and Play PC
” to configure
the NIC.
Figure 7
Preinstallation Software Screen
Record the displayed IRQs. You need to verify that
an available IRQ is assigned to the NIC when the NIC
Configuration Settings screen (
Figure 28
on
page 49
)
appears later in the 3Com Installation Wizard.
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