>the idea I’d like to discuss is based on Gary Nebbett’s article "Booting
NT from floppies" which I suggest you read before reading on, see
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=01bd598b%244000c380%241eadf6a8%40caopi2
Also, Gary was kind enough to provide me with an updated version of the
article and the source code to his NTBOOTDD.SYS (basically ramboot.sys
is no longer needed). The updated article and the source code are
attached at the bottom of this message, please scroll down first and
read this too.
A couple of possibilities:
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use a motherboard that will boot from a USB drive and use a USB->Compact
Flash adapter that conforms to the USB storage specs (the little SIIG gizmo
I have seems to work with no drivers under W2K). -
You can buy little adapter gizmos that fit in a 3.5" drive bay that
adapt a IDE cable to a compact flash connector. I assume you could load the
OS on one of these. You could also use a 1 GByte Compact Flash size
MicroDrive if you need more space.
- Jan