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Posted by meneedit on Jul-21-2004 04:12:

IT traineeship

Im doing an IT traineeship at the moment and there are "assignments" involved with it that I have to complete every month.

I have been working on the current one for a few days now but I
just need to know if the following is correct:

"Every operating system needs a boot disk in addition to the installation CD with the exception of XP. With XP you only need the CD because it can boot off itself."

Posted by 00soups00 on Jul-21-2004 04:13:

Windows 2000 can also boot off cd.

Posted by pkcRAISTLIN on Jul-21-2004 04:26:

you can boot from the 98 CD too.

Posted by meneedit on Jul-21-2004 05:53:

thanks guys

Posted by muli on Jul-21-2004 06:20:

not all PCs will boot off XP from the CD.

In that case you go to microsoft website and download the boot disk creator.

Posted by Aesthetic on Jul-21-2004 23:00:

Re: IT traineeship

you can bet your bottom dollar that any operating system past 98 will be cd bootable.. not because of the technology of the operating system, rather that systems that have been released past a certain date, have the software drivers for a cd rom loaded into the BIOS which is then used to load your OS, so your statement is pretty much incorrect.. the only reason xp and any other cd-bootable software can be loaded, is because the drivers have already been loaded in ths bios (or "firmware").

quote:
Originally posted by meneedit
Im doing an IT traineeship at the moment and there are "assignments" involved with it that I have to complete every month.

I have been working on the current one for a few days now but I
just need to know if the following is correct:

"Every operating system needs a boot disk in addition to the installation CD with the exception of XP. With XP you only need the CD because it can boot off itself."

Posted by nicknack on Jul-22-2004 01:16:

better yet, dont use windows and you'll never need a bootdisk

Posted by escee on Jul-22-2004 10:00:

quote:
Originally posted by nicknack
better yet, dont use windows and you'll never need a bootdisk

because linux wont be able to detect your hardware during the install?

Posted by nicknack on Jul-22-2004 10:48:

quote:
Originally posted by escee
because linux wont be able to detect your hardware during the install?

toushe