In my office I only install my OS through an external hard disk.  At
times I will even make an extra partition with will hold the OS,
installation seems to be quicker when not installing from CD.

Michael L. Bonza
Groucho Barx Internet Services & Computer Repair
502-348-9616

-----Original Message-----
From: David Gillett [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 16, 2005 1:38 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] no os

  It has been some time now, but I have installed 98SE from a ZIP drive
on a
couple of occasions,  It hadn't occurred to me that newer OS versions
might
not permit that; I believe I've installed 2K Pro from a hard drive
partition....

David Gillett


On 15 Feb 2005 at 1:06, Richard Glazier wrote:

> I think I read once that Windows will not allow an install
> from a Zip Disk.
> If David was talking about using the Zip Disk to move the install
> files TO the hard drive for a hard drive install, that would be
another matter...
>
>                               Rick Glazier
>
> From: "David Gillett"
> >   There are a couple of other options.  You may be able to use
another
> > machine to copy the CD to a hard drive partition, or a flash drive,
or a ZIP
> > disk if you have a suitable drive available, and then redirect to
there
> > instead of the CD drive during the install process.
>
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