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Old June 7th, 2006, 06:29 AM
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Network boot
hi guys/gals,

does anybody know how to network boot?

i have a laptop with no cdrom and floppy drive (kinda old). only a usb and ethernet. my current os (xp) is not working, even in safe mode. thats why i need to downgrade to win 2k. but i cant boot from a external cdrom (usb). my next option is to do a network boot but i dont know how.

how can i do a network boot?

i have copied the entire win2k cd in a folder and shared it in the network. after that i dont know the next step.

need this asap.

thanks in advance!
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Old June 7th, 2006, 12:34 PM
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Did you go into the BIOS and set USB for the boot order?
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Old June 7th, 2006, 10:31 PM
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Did you go into the BIOS and set USB for the boot order?


no option in my bios to boot in USB
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Old June 8th, 2006, 06:57 AM
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no option in my bios to boot in USB


See if you can't make a floppy boot disk.
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Old June 9th, 2006, 02:05 AM
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See if you can't make a floppy boot disk.


no floppy...
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no floppy...


Oops I thought you said you have a "kinda old" floppy drive.

Try getting to boot options and booting "Command prompt with networking." You'll have to use the command lines but if you know how to naviate with cd and such you should be able to find the file and start the setup.
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Old June 10th, 2006, 02:53 AM
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Oops I thought you said you have a "kinda old" floppy drive.

Try getting to boot options and booting "Command prompt with networking." You'll have to use the command lines but if you know how to naviate with cd and such you should be able to find the file and start the setup.


xp generates an error "xp cannot run under safe mode..." this is one of my problems...
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I'd say you're best bet is to borrow or get a CDROM drive or something you can boot off of and then work from there.
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