Re: installation with no floppy or CD?
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> It can be done. But you do really feel that masochistic. Just borrow a
> cdrom/floppy.
>
Not at all masochistic - provided you have a way to boot into DOS. I've
just done this (many times :-( ) because I don't have an up-to-date CD
(though my laptop came with WinME, so I needed a floppy to get to DOS).
>From DOS, you follow the install instructions for installing from a
harddisk, copy the necessary files from the net (under Windows) to your
DOS partition, then boot into DOS and get to the correct DOS directory,
run INSTALL.BAT, and you're away
--
Derek Broughton
CCISM Virtual Helpdesk
Athabasca University
mailto: dbroughton@netcom.ca
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