Install LabVIEW 2011 RT on old PXI

[Bob_Schor]

I recently tried to install LabVIEW 2011 Real-Time on an older PXI 8176 Controller, one with a floppy disk and no RT Safe Mode option in its BIOS.  It wasn't easy, and wasn't "clean".  There's another post on this Discussion Board asking the same question, to which I replied about my woes.  I've since persisted and have completely solved the problem, and have documented this as a followup post.  I'll try to post a link to the "solution" here.

http://forums.ni.com/t5/PXI/Can-t-update-software-on-PXI-through-MAX/m-p/1889979#M10389

[Texas_Diaz]

Yeah - the USB Flash Drive is for RT PC Desktop systems only, if you use that to format your PXI controller various things will not work (namely PXI chassis detection, PXI triggering, and anything else having to do with the PXI chassis).  My guess is that once you had it running as an RT Desktop PC you'd be able to talk to your controller just fine if the firewall wasn't blocking lkads.  LVRT 8.6.1 and newer use AutoIP to get an address, we don't do 0.0.0.0 any more.  We dropped the floppy disk creation from newer versions of MAX because Windows7 doesn't like to mount our floppy disk images - there's a crazy simple workaround, but one that we'd have never thought of (and cannot seem to make work without the workaround).  

Good job getting it running!

-Danny