dswskinner
Junior Member
Hi all
I'm new in the world of SSF and i'm planning the system that i'm going to built to be my HTPC.
My current vision is:
One of the Springdale or Canterwood cubes (depending on when i buy, what they cost and what the differences between the 2 are)
Pentium 2.8c
512Mb 400Mhz ram (i assume with springdale and canterwood it is better to have 2 sticks of 256?)
2 80Gb S-ATA drives RAID 1
One of the Radeon AIW cards
A Sony DVDRW combo drive.
My question is: is don't want to mess us the front of my case by using an internal floppy drive. So have decided on a USB drive that i can just hide in a drawer. I know the XPC's can boot from USB floppy so bootdisks are not problem.
However, when installing Win2k/XP on an XPC. Do you need to hit F6 right at the beginning to give the install the drivers for your Hard disk controllers (i currently have to do this as i am using an old Abit BE6-II)?? If you do need to do this, does the install recognise the USB floppy as a regular floppy.
Many thanks in advance.
I'm new in the world of SSF and i'm planning the system that i'm going to built to be my HTPC.
My current vision is:
One of the Springdale or Canterwood cubes (depending on when i buy, what they cost and what the differences between the 2 are)
Pentium 2.8c
512Mb 400Mhz ram (i assume with springdale and canterwood it is better to have 2 sticks of 256?)
2 80Gb S-ATA drives RAID 1
One of the Radeon AIW cards
A Sony DVDRW combo drive.
My question is: is don't want to mess us the front of my case by using an internal floppy drive. So have decided on a USB drive that i can just hide in a drawer. I know the XPC's can boot from USB floppy so bootdisks are not problem.
However, when installing Win2k/XP on an XPC. Do you need to hit F6 right at the beginning to give the install the drivers for your Hard disk controllers (i currently have to do this as i am using an old Abit BE6-II)?? If you do need to do this, does the install recognise the USB floppy as a regular floppy.
Many thanks in advance.
