deploy boot diskette

[Jan]

Hi,

I know theres a way to create a diskette that boots and uses your
distribution share. How do you create one ?

At the end of the questions in setupmgr.exe it didn't ask me to create a
boot disk. Is this because no disk drive is installed ? Will it prompt me to
do so if I install one ?
Is there a way to put it on a usb stick and boot from there ?

thanks for your help....

 

[Helge Wunderlich]

I know theres a way to create a diskette that boots and uses your
distribution share. How do you create one ?

Here are a couple of links that may be useful:

http://home.no.net/helgeww/bootdisk
http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk
http://www.bootdisk.com

At the end of the questions in setupmgr.exe it didn't ask me to create a
boot disk. Is this because no disk drive is installed ? Will it prompt me to
do so if I install one ?

No, it won't. setupmgr does not have the capability to create boot
disks.

Is there a way to put it on a usb stick and boot from there ?

It is possible. You'd need a USB stick that is capable of booting, and
your computers must be able to boot from USB. Not all computers have
this capability.

You may want to take a look at network boot. It is very elegant. No
need to carry any floppy or USB device around.