The USB stick is a 10/100 network card (wired). That is what I was wondering wether or not the boot CD would have drivers for to be able to do a network install from the laptop's NFS... B-) On Friday 29 October 2004 04:57 am, Joel Wiramu Pauling wrote:

On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 08:07 -0600, Brad Bourn wrote:

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Could you explain a little?

Recent motherboard chipset bios's support booting off USB devices, be it USB hard drive (ipod) or USB key stick.

You go about creating a boot drive on your USB keystick like you would any other boot partition/drive, and make sure it is plugged in on cold boot.

In you bios there will be a boot order/boot from option, this is normally set to floppy/cdrom/ide-0 by default (or similar) but you can change round the order of precidence which the Bios will look for a boot sector, you want to set it to USB or external or other... any of those three options set to the first boot device, with your usb bootable drive inserted will make it boot from it.

If it doesn't then your bios probably doesn't support booting from usb devices.

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What to look for?

Any way around?

B-)

On Thursday 28 October 2004 07:56 am, Andreas Jaeger wrote:

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Brad Bourn <brad@summitrd.com> writes:

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Brings up a good question.

I have a cdwriter in this laptop, so making boot cd shouldn't be a problem.

The question I have for ya, is , I have a USB network "stick" sort of thingie from Linksys, will it get recognised and configured with the boot cd without too much trouble?

It might - it depends on your BIOS.

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All the easier to take over the world If I can just plug into said PC, and VIOLA!

;-)

Andreas