# Make an Installation Diskette

Installation disks are useful when you are loading drivers on systems that do not have a CD drive or a network connection. You can create installation disks using the MAKEDISK utility or by directly copying the appropriate files to a floppy disk.

The MAKEDISK utility copies the appropriate driver software for desktop, server, mobile and wireless LAN products, for the following operating systems:

- Windows*

- NetWare*

- DOS

| NOTE: Each adapter supports a specific subset of these operating systems.
| NOTE: Some of these installations may require two floppy disks.

You can run MAKEDISK from either a command prompt or the autorun program on the Intel CD (or downloaded Intel software package).

### Running MAKEDISK from the Autorun screen

1. Insert the Intel CD in the CD-ROM drive. The CD's autorun program automatically starts. (If you are staring with a downloaded installation package, navigate to the respective directory using your Windows Explorer program.)

2. To start the autorun program manually, double-click Autorun.exe in the root directory of the Intel media (CD or downloaded software package).

3. Click Make Driver Disk.

4. If you are prompted for the adapter type, select the adapter type and click OK.
   The Create Install Disk dialog appears.

5. Select the name of the target operating system.

6. In the destination drive drop-down list, click the appropriate drive.

7. Insert a blank disk into the disk drive then click Create Disk.

### Running MAKEDISK from a command prompt window

1. Insert a formatted floppy disk in your disk drive.

2. For NetWare, skip to step 3.
   For Windows, open a command prompt window from the Start menu:
   For Windows 98, Windows Me, and Windows 95, select Run from the Start menu and then type "command" in the Run dialog. Click OK.
   For Windows Server 2003, Windows XP, Windows 2000, select Run from the Start menu and then type "cmd" in the Run dialog. Click OK.

3. In the command prompt window, switch to the drive that contains the files. For example, type:
   E: <Enter>

4. Change the active directory to \APPS\MAKEDISK.

5. At the command line type:
   MAKEDISK OS Destination <Enter>

where OS is the operating system driver to be copied, and Destination is the destination floppy drive letter (e.g., A:). Use the parameter listed below that matches your operating system, adapter type, and computing platform:

| Intel® PRO/1000 adapters | Intel® PRO/100 adapters
| IA-32 platforms | Intel® Itanium®-based platforms | IA-32 platforms | Intel® Itanium®-based platforms
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 | NET32GIG | NET64GIG | NET32FE | NET64FE
Microsoft Windows XP | XP32GIG | XP64GIG | XP32FE | XP64FE
Microsoft Windows 2000 | W2KGIG |  | W2KFE |
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 | NT |  | NT |
Microsoft Windows 95, 98, ME | W9X |  | W9X |
Novell NetWare | NW |  | NW |
Microsoft MS-DOS* and IBM* OS/2 | DOS |  | DOS |

| NOTE: If you select Windows NT 4.0, MAKEDISK will copy the Intel® PROSet utility as well as the base driver files, and will require two floppy disks. All other Windows versions will result in only the drivers being copied, and require one floppy disk. NetWare and DOS selections will also require one floppy disk.

`Last modified on 1/23/03 8:35a Revision 16`