National Instruments PXI NI 8171 Series - Manual (Page 31)

Chapter 2 Installation and Configuration
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3. The BIOS boots from CD-ROM drive. Follow the prompts to recover
the hard drive.
Note Not all CD-ROMs are bootable with the NI 8171 series controllers. For a complete
list of USB CD-ROM drives that National Instruments has verified as bootable, see
ni.com/support/pxisupp.htm .
Recovery from a Network
To recover the hard disk from a network:
1. Create a DOS boot disk with network support. (The DOS network
drivers and a network boot disk example are on the recovery CD.)
2. Use another PC on the network with a CD-ROM drive. Share the drive
and load the recovery CD.
3. Boot the NI 8171 series using the network boot disk. Run the net utility
from the
a drive.
4. Map the shared CD-ROM drive to K: .
5. Run k:\recover.bat . Follow the prompts to recover the hard drive.
Installing an OS
NI 8171 series controllers include a preinstalled OS. In some cases, you
may want to reinstall the OS or install a different OS. When doing so,
considering the following guidelines.
Installing from a CD-ROM
Although the NI 8171 series can boot from a USB CD-ROM, you cannot
install most operating systems from a USB CD-ROM drive. For example,
Windows 2000 aborts during the install process because it does not have
drivers for the CD-ROM device.
With DOS drivers, you can install Windows 9x operating systems.
However, only a few USB CD-ROM drives have DOS drivers.
National Instruments does not recommend using a USB CD-ROM drive for
CD-ROM OS installations. However, you can use a PXI-1020 or PXI-1025
chassis with an integrated IDE CD-ROM drive, or an external SCSI
CD-ROM with a PXI-SCSI adapter.