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Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
What jumpdrive is big enough to put an OS on?
Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
What jumpdrive is big enough to put an OS on?
Uh the reason for booting off a jumpdrive is for updating bios, or minor little things like that. Nobody here is thinking about loading an OS.
Originally posted by: Nocturnal
Uh the reason for booting off a jumpdrive is for updating bios, or minor little things like that. Nobody here is thinking about loading an OS.Originally posted by: Gobadgrs What jumpdrive is big enough to put an OS on?
Originally posted by: LAUST
I made a floppy disk with Norton ghost (PC-DOS) and just copied the disk over to my Jumpdrive. with those files in the root it boots up every time.
Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
What jumpdrive is big enough to put an OS on?
Originally posted by: FrankyJunior
Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
What jumpdrive is big enough to put an OS on?
THey have Jump Drives that are over a gig in size. Plenty to have an OS on it.
I know a guy working on stripping enough out of WIn98 that you can get it to load into Memoery and run from there. Faster than crap if he gets it working.
Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
What jumpdrive is big enough to put an OS on?
The partition on the key has to be active. Use Fdisk to remove the partition, reboot, fdisk a new partition, format /s and then you are good to go. If it does not boot after that, then you have a bios/usb key controller issue.Originally posted by: FreshPrince
hmm..my drive must suck
I popped in a DOS 6.22 install disk and made the usb device a system drive. the command said system transferred.
however, when I try to boot it, screen says missing operating system
not sure what else to do, normally when you run sys c: it should make the drive bootable.
Also, in the bios, I enabled usb boot. For boot priority, I can see that the usb device is viewed as a hard drive with the label: [], this is strange, but it disappears when I disconnect the device so I know this is it. Is there anything else I'm missing?
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While it is possible to do this, it is not practical. The flash memory used in a USB key has a finite number of read/write operations that can be performed before the memory becomes unusable. While this number is in the millions, when you put an OS onto the key that performs thousands of read/write operations as a matter of course, it is not long before your key becomes worthless.Originally posted by: labrat25
would the system boot any faster if you got a decent sized usb 2.0 drive and installed the OS to it?
i've been kicking around the idea, but not quite sure (and all my stuff is 1.1 so any bandwidth/memory tests suck ass compared to the hard disks)
Originally posted by: lo5750ul
While it is possible to do this, it is not practical. The flash memory used in a USB key has a finite number of read/write operations that can be performed before the memory becomes unusable. While this number is in the millions, when you put an OS onto the key that performs thousands of read/write operations as a matter of course, it is not long before your key becomes worthless.Originally posted by: labrat25
would the system boot any faster if you got a decent sized usb 2.0 drive and installed the OS to it?
i've been kicking around the idea, but not quite sure (and all my stuff is 1.1 so any bandwidth/memory tests suck ass compared to the hard disks)