The newest versions of 7 (download) support USB booting, supposedly, and 8 probably will only be USB. On Nov 16, 2011, at 10:18 AM, Jason Hsu wrote: > On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 14:35:55 -0600 > Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote: > >> The one at Costco has the AMD Dual-Core C-60 1.0GHz, or so says their >> web page. It looks like I'll be able to pick one up tomorrow. It has >> no DVD/CD drive, but I'm planning to use it as a DVD player for my >> daughter by mounting ISOs stored on the HDD or USB drives. >> > How do you install an OS without an optical drive? While I have installed used USB drives, I don't think Windows comes on USB drives. I remember that Windows 98 and XP came on CDs (95 had floppies), and I think Vista and 7 use DVDs. > > -- > Jason Hsu <jhsu802701 at jasonhsu.com> > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list