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I’m talking about a PCIe Intel NIC added to the system, not the onboard one which is accessible from BIOS. The reason is that I use the on-board NIC on the WAN segment and I’m teaming the two ports of the add-on NIC on the LAN. And the LAN segment is where the DHCP and PXE servers located.

I have a Dell PE2950 located in a data center 2 hrs driving away. I access it with a KVM over IP so I can get into the BIOS etc. It has an Intel Pro1000PT NIC with PXE disabled. I need to enable PXE on it, for which I have to run the IBAUTIL -FE command from DOS. Not from a DOS prompt in Windows but the server has to boot to DOS. The server does not have a floppy drive or a virtual floppy. It does have the Dell utility partition and Windows 2003 R2 x64 installed. It also has a CDRW. Is there a way to use the Dell utility partition to run the above command? (According to them no: “the utility partition provides only limited MS-DOS functionality and cannot be used as a general-purpose MS-DOS partition”) Can the utility partition be modified for full DOS functionality? Is there any other way to create a full DOS partition under these circumstances? The next option would be to ask the techs in the data center (a paid service) to insert a blank CDR and burn Hiran’s or similar boot image to it. Any better ideas?