Mark,
Thanks for the reply! Trouble is that most of the machines I will be
installing this on do not support booting from a USB device, so I was hoping
to be able to bootup the PC using a DOS diskette and load the USB drivers
using the config.sys and then some how be able to install XPe from the thumb
drive.
I'll keep researching it, since Slobodan said it could be done...
Thank you for your reply!
Stacey
"Mark K Vallevand" <mark.vallevand@unisys.com> wrote in message
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> We can install XPe OS from USB flash drive. Here is how we do it:
> - Create bootable USB flash drive. We use XPe for this, but DOS works,
> too.
> - Write a binary copy program that can write a binary image of the Compact
> Flash.
> - Use the program to save an image of the Compact Flash in a file on the
> USB drive.
> - Add scripting to the bootable USB to use the program to write the image
> from the USB drive to the Compact Flash.
>
> If you are using a HD, you'll be better with some kind of backup/restore
> that runs from the USB drive. An image of the HD will be big. Under DOS,
> maybe Symantec Ghost would be be a good choice.
>
> --
> Regards.
> Mark K Vallevand Mark.Vallevand@Unisys.com
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> "Slobodan Brcin (eMVP)" <sbrcin@ptt.yu> wrote in message
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>> Stacey,
>>
>> If DOS bootdisk is regular floppy disk then you can do it.
>> But if DOS is on USB and BIOS don't have USB boot they you are out of
>> luck :-(
>>
>> Regards,
>> Slobodan
>>
>> "Stacey" <psalm40@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
>> news:39-dnZNxhfYG3y7fRVn-tg@giganews.com...
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I've seen allot of posts asking how to boot to a flash drive (I.e.
>>> has
>>> XPe installed on it), but what I want to do is boot to a DOS Bootdisk
>>> that
>>> will load DOS usb drivers using the config.sys and then install XPe on a
>>> PC
>>> from the setup files stored on a thumb drive. Is this Possible? The BIOS
>>> on
>>> systems I want to install XPe on don't support booting from a USB drive
>>> and
>>> they don't have CD-ROMS installed on them so you have to open up the PC
>>> and
>>> put in the CD-ROM drive and boot up to it to install xpe. It would be so
>>> nice to be able to install xpe from a thumb drive...
>>>
>>> Thanks for any advice!
>>>
>>> Stacey
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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