Can anyone help with this---

How can I perform a fresh install of DOS 6.2 on a newly-formatted hard drive on a laptop that has no floppy drive?  I'm assuming that I will have to possibly make a bootable DOS install CD.  Is this right?  If so, how can I go about making such a CD?

Also, I've thought about using a USB floppy drive.  Would this simply require placing a USB driver on the boot disk?How to make a bootable CD DEPENDS on which CD BURNING software you use.  It typically involves starting with a bootable floppy disk, then going to your CD burning software and telling it you want a bootable CD, and it uses the information from the bootable floppy disk when it burns the CD.

For a USB floppy, you shouldn't need any drivers, but the support needs to be in the computer BIOS.  If the BIOS supports it, be sure it is enabled and plug the USB floppy drive in the computer before booting up.  It should boot right to the floppy disk.10-4.  I'll give it a shot with the USB floppy.  Thanks.If that machine is more than 3 or 4 years old chances are that BIOS does not support booting from a USB device...
Post more info on what burner program you have as was requested and we can go further.

patio.  8-)1.  I just checked the BIOS, and this particular system does support booting from USB.

2.  My question REGARDING the bootable CD should have been a little clearer.  I use Nero, and I know how to burn a bootable CD.  My question involves transferring files from the DOS install disks to the bootable CD.  Is the process as simple as transferring the files from the three DOS floppies to a directory, and then using these files to make the bootable CD?  Or is there more involved?If you have the floppy disks, and you have a USB floppy, and your computer supports booting to USB, then why not use that?

If you want to use CD, then I would try a process like this:

• For the boot image on your CD be sure to include the CD-ROM device driver file, and a line to load it in your CONFIG.SYS (like "device=oakcdrom.sys /d:cd1")
• Include the MSCDEX.EXE and load it in your AUTOEXEC.BAT (like "mscdex /d:cd1").
• Then when you burn your bootable CD, you can copy all of your DOS files to the non-bootable part of the CD.
• When the CD is booting, it should load CD-ROM support and ALLOW you to read the files on the CD so you can copy them to your computer.

If you have the floppy disks, and you have a USB floppy, and your computer supports booting to USB, then why not use that?