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Installing 2K?

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TMPadmin

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Simple question right? Let me set this up.

I have a rugged notebook with a floppy drive. External USB CD rom and the bios does not boot to a network card (PCMCIA only available). HOW can I get 2K installed on this? Do Dos USB drivers exists? I neved needed them so never looked but I guess I could.

Any suggestions?
 
Can you set in the BIOS to boot off a USB device, I'm not farmilar with Panasonic's Rugged notebooks.

Do you currently have operating system on the notebook? How many paritions do you have?
If you have more than two, cool. Copy the from the Windows 2k the I386 folder, to the 2nd partition. Boot into DOS, go into the i386 folder, run setup or WINNT. This will start the install for you.

I think if you have one, I'm not sure you can install windows on the same parition.
 
You might try BootDisk.com here. I have not tried these with an external cdrom but they do have built in cdrom drivers. This is a custom 4 disk set and has worked well for me with internal cdrom drives when I did not have bootable cdrom option in the bios.
 
Thought of those and even thought of booting to a network boot floppy but I don't have dos drivers for the megahertz PCMCIA card that's in there. Plus I would need a PCMCIA dos driver. Amrel made the computer (made for military work). I'm gonna try calling them when they open. The big problem I have now is they need it by tomorrow morning and I don't think I can get it back to how they have it now by then, too many custom install crap.
 
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