Networking an Existing Office Station
Last edited: December 15, 2003 08:09 AM

ADDING LANTASTIC TO EXISTING OFFICE SYSTEMS TO WORK WITH THE TOUCH MENUS SYSTEM INVOLVES LOADING THE SOFTWARE, ADDING A NET CARD, THEN CONFIGURING THE SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE TO WORK PROPERLY.
INSTALLING THE NET CARD

    Touch Menus software is set up to use IRQ5 on the net card. This will work on most systems. Some bus mice, sound cards and CD ROMS use this interrupt.  If there is a conflict please call, we can generally make it work although sound cards present a challenge.

  1. The Network Adapter has many jumpers on it. Locate the row of jumpers that say IRQ 3, IRQ 4, etc., near to the gold “fingers” on the adapter.  The position labeled IRQ 5 needs to be jumpered.  If there is no jumper on that position check the other IRQ positions for a jumper, usually IRQ 3, and move that jumper to IRQ 5.  Carefully install the adapter in a slot on the motherboard.

TO LOAD SOFTWARE

    1. Install disk 1 of Lantastic into the A: drive
    2. At the C:> prompt type A:install/dos
    3. For computer name type OFFICE
    4. For directory accept the default of C:
      then next screen  C:LANTASTI
    5. On the next screen select DO NOT share my computers drives and
      printers
    6. Hit enter at next screen (that causes no extra services to be
      added)
    7. Hit enter on next screen to accept parameters
    8. Next screen use down arrow to scroll to bottom of list and select
      wd8003
    9. Select DO NOT set up permanent drive and printer connections
  10. Hit enter at next screen to accept parameters for the install
  11. Hit enter at next screen when asked about autoexec.bat
      modifications
  12. The install will start, insert second disk when requested.
  13. At end of install go to DOS by hitting ENTER then
  14. At next page hit ESC to go to DOS
CONFIGURING THE SYSTEM

The software install is complete now the configuration phase begins.
The following is a description of how to modify the office system’s
autoexec.bat file.
    1. Make sure you are at your systems root directory. The prompt
      should be C:> , if it is not then type C: (enter)
      then cd (enter).
    2. Type EDIT AUTOEXEC.BAT ,Lantastic will have added a line at the
      bottom “call lantastistartnet.bat”.
    3. Remove that line by using the arrow keys to go to the first
      character of that line then using the delete key to delete all
      the chararcters.
    4. Add the following lines to the end of the autoexec.bat file.

        SUBST Z:
      WD8003 IRQ=5
      AILANBIO
      REDIR OFFICE
      NET USE N: \MAINC-DRIVE

    5. Near the top of the file is a line starting with “PATH=”, arrow
      over past the “C:DOS;” and edit in “C:LANTASTI;” into the PATH
      statement, immediately following the semi-colon ([color=black:9kabw1w6];[/color:9kabw1w6]) paying close
      attention to punctuation and placement.   
     

    6. Hit “alt F” then X to exit then Y to save the file. 
 

    7. Type EDIT CONFIG.SYS.
 

    8. If a line with EMM386.exe exists the the network card address
      needs to be excluded by adding the following switch to the end
      of the EMM386 line,
      X=D000-D1FF.

    9. Append the following lines anywhere after the HIMEM and EMM386
      command:

        DEVICE=C:DOSRAMDRIVE.SYS 300 /E
        LASTDRIVE=Z
 

  10. Hit “alt F’ then X to exit then Y to save the file.

  11. Once the system is rebooted with these modifications the network
      should be accessible by typing N: