Booting a thin client from USB device

[Guest]

We want to be able to boot a thin client from USB to any windows
(98/xp/2000/xpe). These machines have a CF preloaded with Linux and all our
softwares and diagnostics are in windows. It not practical for us to swap out
the CF cards so we need a way to test these from outside. If nothing works
even an USB CD image is an option..but we want to have a way where we can
boot it to desktop and test a few things..
Thanks
Sid

 

[Slobodan Brcin \(eMVP\)]

Sid,

Two choices for you:
1. Get M-Systems solution for XPe boot for their USB uDOC device.
2. Make SDI ramdisk boot solution. This same image can boot from any medium since ntldr will load whole image to memory then it will
initiate ram boot procedure. This is well discused in this NG. Also doc for creating SDI image is descibed in product documentations
for network boot. So this image can be booted from network, CD, USB, HDD, or any other device that can load ntldr.

Regards,
Slobodan