In message <<t51Yb.46091$9k7.935861@news.xtra.co.nz>> "~misfit~"
<~misfit~@his_desk.com> did ramble:
>> Out of curiosity, is there any way to trick XP into looking at
>> flashdrives or CD drives rather then the floppy at this stage of the
>> install?
>>
>> The reason I ask, I'm trying to go floppyless on most my systems, but
>> I haven't found any trick to install XP or 2000/2003 server without a
>> floppy on any RAID or SATA enabled systems.
>
>I've heard this question asked before but so far haven't seen a reply that
>suggests you can use anything other than a floppy.
>
>Maybe just temporarilly connect a floppy for set up? After all, you only
>need it the once.
Plus emergencies -- For that reason, I like to have everything required
to rebuild a system physically installed, or on top of the hardware or
workbench. That includes OS reinstall disks, and a quick list of IPs,
minimum software requirements, special partitioning instructions, etc.
The last thing I need is to be in a panic trying to rebuild one or more
failed machines and have my only floppy drive/cable/whatever get damaged
somehow, or find out it "just doesn't work"
It just feels wrong to require a floppy -- I can boot from a CD, I can
boot from a flash drive -- I can format a flash drive and install on it,
why can't I load a driver from the flash drive?
I'm almost curious if you can slipstream a SCSI/RAID driver into the
installer? I've never poked at slipstreaming before, but I should
probably add that to my "to be researched" list.
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