LaCie Ethernet Big Disk
User Manual
Setting Up Your Ethernet Big Disk
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3.4. Driver Installation (USB Only)
3.4.1. Windows XP and 2000 Users
Once the Ethernet Big Disk is plugged in via USB,
a window will appear saying that new hardware has
been detected (Fig. 3.4.A.).
Then, if the driver has not already been installed,
Windows will ask to install it.
When Windows asks if it can connect to Windows
Update to search for the driver, select
No, not at
this time
and click
Next
(Fig. 3.4.B.).
Insert the Ethernet Big Disk Storage Utilities
CD-ROM. When Windows asks,
What do you
want the wizard to do?
, select
Install the Software
Automatically (Recommended)
(Fig. 3.4.C.).
Once the device is detected and the driver is loaded,
the task bar in the lower right hand corner of your
screen will show the following icon, which indi-
cates that the network interface is being initialized
either with DHCP* (if available) or with APIPA**:
Once the wizard has finished, click Finish and move
on to the next step, 3.5.,
Installing and Running the
Configuration Wizard
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LaCie Ethernet Disk
Ethernet Disk mini
TEChNICAl NOTE:
* DHCP is a client/server based protocol that is
used to assign IP addresses in a network.
** APIPA is a “light” protocol that is used by DHCP
clients when no DHCP servers are available
(or until the DHCP server becomes available).
APIPA is a kind of “fallback” to get an IP ad-
dress compatible with the network defined by
169.254.0.0/255.255.0.0 (or 169.254.0.0/16).
