USB Boot HOWTO wanted.

[vxspiritxv]

Gawd what ever happened to:
sys x:

Any ways I need a howto on making a boot to dos usb thumb drive, with out using floppies.
I'm just going to use it to flash my bios; No flashing in windows thank you.

 

[Audiochris]

try this site http://www.weethet.nl/english/hardware_bootfromusbstick.php

 

[vxspiritxv]

Saw that site, didn't have any clue how to get bootsect.bin with out having a floppy drive installed.

 

[Bullitt]

Try this:

http://www.aaltonen.us/archive/2004/03/01/tip-boot-from-usb-key-addendum/

You;ll need a boot disk image, but those are easy to find using the interweb.

 

[vxspiritxv]

Well what blows about that, is the download isnt working from hp right now (or should I say ftp.compaq.com) Hehe, gona be one of those nights.

Found the program using google

 

[Bullitt]

wow, I downloaded it not 3 mins ago...

I've been looking for a util like that. Usually I make a CD-RW bootable with my flash files and do it that way.

 

[vxspiritxv]

Worked great for me, thanks!