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by javadaddy

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I have about 50 machines I need to image by the end of December. We are upgrading from Win95 to 2000. The Machines are HP Kayak XA's and they don't have CDROM's. I can load the image from the network which takes about an hour and a half per machine.What I was wondering is..... Is there a way to boot from the USB port ether directly or by loading drivers on a floppy disk that point to the USB device??? I tried changing the boot device in the BIOS. I guess the next thing I'll look at is updatingthe BIOS to see if that will allow me to boot to the USB device.
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by rdschaefer

As far as I've been able to determine so far, the only drivers available for USB are for Winxxx GUIs (maybe Linux also, I don't know). I've been trying to find the technical specs on the hardware itself so I can write a DOS (Cmd line) driver but haven't been successful yet. If I do figure it out, I'll let T/R members know first.

Ralph

by wisebc

Looking to boot from a usb external hard drive, any luck on the DOS drivers?

by jd889900

I have bought a USB memory-stick ONLYDISK from NETAC Co. and it claims to be able to work as a floppy and to boot the P.C from USB port.

I have not been able to probe it because I am using it on W95B and it doesn't work well yet, I think.

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