Hi, the way I overcome this problem is I have a Win 95 OS on floppy.
All 15 disks or so. Go to Ebay and see if there's one around. Failing
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Steve.

On 09/01/07, Russ Cox <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I have acquired several Compaq Deskpro computers that were used in a corporation. These are very compact computers w/ hard disk and floppy but no CDROM and no space for one and no OS. I think they would work just fine for limited use, internet and word processing etc. if I could figure out how to load an OS on them.  They have USB and ethernet ports, but they wouldn't be usable until drivers were loaded. There is a secondary IDE connector on the mother board, but I'd have to jury rig a power connection for an IDE CDROM since there's only one power cable from the power supply to the hard disk.  The boot options are limited to floppy, hard disk and Compaq Ethernet controller. So if I could temporarily connect a CDROM, I could boot from a floppy, then load from the CDROM,
> Any ideas of how I could boot the computer up and load an OS from a CD? What would I have to do to boot from the ethernet connection?
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