No one here ever stated it can't be done...of course it can...as BC illustrated above.

However due to Forum Rules and regulations all links for doing so have been removed.

This is not a case of "yes i found a way"...rather an adherence to what we do here.

Any questions for newer Members that aren't familiar with the Forum Rules can be addressed to myself or any of the Forum Moderators.

Thanx.
patio.
Just wanted to mention that USB for an OS to run on 1.1 or most likely 2.0 is "SLOW" and a real physical drive is MUCH faster. Also that if you needed say 100 hard drives for the cost of the pen drives, there should be no problems finding good used or new 20GB to 80GB IDE drives for the equivilant cost of say a 16GB pen drive that most vendors would love to get rid of since these days its 1TB or greater capacity drives that are stocked and anything smaller unless solid state is generally older stock that they will want to move now vs taking a loss later on.

If you shop around you can get them, be legal, and have much better performance which in turn will minimize loss of job productivity. You wouldnt want a bunch of employees sitting around with pen drives flashing and waiting, as would be the case with the OS, swap file, and user data etc all thru a slow USB connection.


http://www.pricewatch.com/gallery/hard_removable_drives/ide%20hard%20drive%2040gb/0

40GB drives linked above. And this vendor http://3btech.net/se4072rpm2mb.html has them for less than $17 USD each with free ground shipping.

I worked almost 7 years once for a small not-for-profit coop food store chain where money was tight, and hardware was fixed and run until it could no longer serve a productive purpose. I was always buying good used or new obsolete hardware to get by and save tens of thousands of dollars annually to the customer members who got their annual refunds based on how much they spent there (temporary store profits) minus operating expenses including infrastructure replacement & repair. So when I saved the store money it meant that in addition to getting a nice bonus for a job well done annually, the customers got more money as well put back into their pockets. An example of how tight we were, to squeeze out every invested penny out of hardware, we were putting old dinosour Pentium 75Mhz machines back into operation with maxed out Ram as workstations since they still operated correctly and were using them as thin-clients. As thin-clients all the computing was really happening at the server end, where we had a lower end Dual Xeon CPU Server that we bought second hand, and the Pentium 75Mhz systems were mainly acting as a means of displaying the users session and passing mouse and key strokes to the server.

The Thin-Client/Server setup was one of the best investments I was involved in there. I was also able to save them tons of money buying from Tiger Direct Refurbished Pentium 4 HP Desktops for less than $150 each with Windows XP Pro and 40GB drives. Going into my boss and showing him that we can have almost complete computers with Windows XP Pro OS bundled with them, just needing displays that we already had on hand from the older Pentium 75's, and getting it all for just $13 more than the price of buying an XP Pro OEM CD at $137, it was an instant approval and buy 30 of them at $144 each since they gave me better corporate pricing buying a large volume of systems. Its not every day that you can buy a computer excluding monitor for $150 with Windows XP Pro and warranty, although Tiger Direct CONTINUES to post them for sale on their website and they sell out quickly.

**Just decided to go take a peak at tiger direct and see if they still offer these and now they are less than $100 each... WOW http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=6602240&CatId=5139just copy the .iso file from the cd to your flashdrive. then set your BIOS to boot from the flashdrive. that should do it. QUOTE from: jupiter14 on August 06, 2011, 05:09:33 AM

just copy the .iso file from the cd to your flashdrive. then set your BIOS to boot from the flashdrive. that should do it.

just copy the .iso file from the cd to your flashdrive. then set your BIOS to boot from the flashdrive. that should do it.

No, that will just leave you with an .iso file on the flash drive - but it certainly won't be bootable.