thumb drive?

[lehmann]

can winxp or win7 be installed on a 8gig thumb drive?

 

[W.Feather]

wait....are you asking if you can use the thumbdrive as your OS drive ?....or if you can put it on a thumb drive to install it ?


I dont think 8 gig would be enough for win7, xp maybe if you trim it up.......i'm not sure really.....

both of them can be put on a thumb drive to install though

 

[Kendrak]

It wont install on a thumb drive.... I've tried.

When running linux off a thumb drive and folding it killed the client speed (if your running larger WU)

notfreds put everything into RAM to get around that problem.

 

[10e]

I've used a 4GB USB stick to install Win7x64 Ultimate, but not for actual O/S use. Ninja'd by Special "K"

 

[lehmann]

oh well worth asking

 

[lassiterb]

XP can be installed on a USB hard drive (had to have some modified USB drivers, lifted from win2003 server I think) so it goes to reason that you might could install it on a USB thumb drive as well.

Win7 is a no go as far as I know though.

 

[nitrobass24]

iscsi boot instead?

 

[W.Feather]

network boot may be what you need ?

 

[lehmann]

Ill have to save for a drive