"Day Brown" <daybrown@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Apr 26, 8:06 am, a...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Richard Bonner) wrote:
>> Day Brown wrote:
>> > I have a mini ITX motherboard that does not have a floppy drive. Is
>> > there some way to use the downloaded software copied onto one hard
>> > drive to install drdos .08 on another one?
>>
>> *** You might borrow and hook up an external floppy drive. You
>> could
>> also place your hard drive into a system with a floppy, do the
>> install,
>> and return it to your floppy-less system. You might also look into
>> burning
>> an image on to a CD-ROM and use that, if your system has a CD-ROM
>> drive.
>
> Ya, went ahead and used a mthbd with a floppy jack. but I can see
> it'll be a worsening problem. I havta pay attention now to whether a
> mthbd has a floppy jack. I'll be watching for the software to boot dos
> off USB. one motherboard has some kind of "dos-usb" boot sup****t in
> the cmos.
It's actually not hard to boot to DOS with a USB flash drive. I use the
HP USB Format tool from
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/sup****t/files/serveroptions/us/download/20306.html
and a bootable floppy with whatever DOS version I want. I think it also
works with an image pulled from a bootable floppy but I'm not positive.
The utility is Windows-based, but it wouldn't surprise me if there were
non-Windows utilities available that can do the same thing.
The most critical part of the equation is whether or not the motherboard
BIOS sup****ts USB Boot, and how it sup****ts it. I have 3 systems at
home from around 5 years ago that all claim USB boot sup****t, but I
can't get it to work on 2 of them. On the other hand, I haven't had a
problem with any motherboards produced in the past couple of years.
Regards,
Dave
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