Mac Driver Installer asks for diskette...

I've downloaded the drivers for a Lucent WaveLAN Silver 802.11b PC card. I'm
trying to install it on a PowerBook 5300, with little success.

Every time I launch the installer, it says "Please insert the diskette
"WaveLan® Install Disk".

The install instructions say to create a folder on the HD called "WaveLAN"
and place the installer files in there. I've done that.

I also named the diskette exactly "WaveLAN® Install Disk". No joy. The
installer says "This is not the correct install disk. Please be sure you're
using the original installation disk." Original? Pffff.

Anyone come up against such brain-dead install scripts before? Is there any
way I can work around this?

I tried putting all the bits wherever I thought they should go in the System
Folder, but apparently I didn't get it right, so I undid that little
experiment.

PowerBook 5300; Mac OS 8.5.

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In article <(E-Mail Removed) et>,
DaveC <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I've downloaded the drivers for a Lucent WaveLAN Silver 802.11b PC card. I'm
> trying to install it on a PowerBook 5300, with little success.
>
> Every time I launch the installer, it says "Please insert the diskette
> "WaveLan® Install Disk".
>
> The install instructions say to create a folder on the HD called "WaveLAN"
> and place the installer files in there. I've done that.
>
> I also named the diskette exactly "WaveLAN® Install Disk". No joy. The
> installer says "This is not the correct install disk. Please be sure you're
> using the original installation disk." Original? Pffff.
>
> Anyone come up against such brain-dead install scripts before? Is there any
> way I can work around this?
>
> I tried putting all the bits wherever I thought they should go in the System
> Folder, but apparently I didn't get it right, so I undid that little
> experiment.
>
> PowerBook 5300; Mac OS 8.5.

The only way around such things is to create a "disk image" with the
files required. These are pretty common in MacOS X, but not used much
in 8.6 days.

Apple distributes MacOS 9 program called "Disk Copy" which is available
at http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macos/312

I think you can use that folder to create a disk image with this
program. Then mount the image and see if the installer will think a
floppy is installed.

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In article <(E-Mail Removed) et>,
DaveC <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> I've downloaded the drivers for a Lucent WaveLAN Silver 802.11b PC card. I'm
> trying to install it on a PowerBook 5300, with little success.
>
> Every time I launch the installer, it says "Please insert the diskette
> "WaveLan® Install Disk".
>
> The install instructions say to create a folder on the HD called "WaveLAN"
> and place the installer files in there. I've done that.
>
> I also named the diskette exactly "WaveLAN® Install Disk". No joy. The
> installer says "This is not the correct install disk. Please be sure you're
> using the original installation disk." Original? Pffff.
>
> Anyone come up against such brain-dead install scripts before? Is there any
> way I can work around this?
>
> I tried putting all the bits wherever I thought they should go in the System
> Folder, but apparently I didn't get it right, so I undid that little
> experiment.
>
> PowerBook 5300; Mac OS 8.5.

I've got a PB5300 running OS 8.6 with an Orinoco Silver (same thing as
the WaveLAN). Off hand I can't recall what driver I put into it but
didn't have any such problem.

If the installer files originally came as disk image(s) then go back to
the disk image(s) and mount them using DiskCopy. Then run the installer
from the disk images. Some installers will run fine in a folder on the
HD but others are looking for a disk mounted on the desktop. Usually a
mounted disk image will work for these. I've only encountered a very
few installers that actually had to have a floppy mounted.

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