Are these Compaqs iPAQs?  (<-mostly curious...)

What I did was copy the c:\win98 directory to the hard drive on an othere 
machine, reinstall the hard drive in the iPAQ and install the OS from 
there... (Once I figured out how to actually get INTO an iPAQ....)

<sigh>

>From: Tim William <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Personal Computer Hardware discussion List              
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>Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] No OS on Compaq
>Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 15:26:37 -0500
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>Here is the easiest way unless you prefer installing 15 floppies.  Go to
>this site
>http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/
>and make a network boot disk.  You'll need to find the driver on this site.
>Then setup another computer on the network with the desired OS's files as a
>share.  Once you boot to the floppy, you can enter the info needed to
>connect to the host sharing the files.  It can be a little tricky at first
>but it works great.  You will need to copy the files from the host to your
>harddrive once the network disk connects you to the host.  Good luck with
>this as a network install is not the easiest way to install an OS.
>Tim
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Personal Computer Hardware discussion List
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Russ Cox
>Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2007 10:29 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: [PCBUILD] No OS on Compaq
>
>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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