June 26th, 2003, 08:29 AM
Oddly enough that is referring to USB to USB connections (like a null modem cable). I tried this and was quite dismayed when it prompted me to connect the USB cable to another computer. :(
June 24th, 2003, 12:43 PM
No ... unfortunately. The Win2K server CD will boot, but gets to a point where it can't read the drive b/c the driver isn't loaded. Compaq has only just recently released a driver to use (press F6...
June 24th, 2003, 11:00 AM
Actually, I'm making a boot floppy that loads the CDROM drivers. I'm using the Win98 boot floppy as my model, just substituting drivers and editing config.sys and autoexec.bat as needed. The...
June 24th, 2003, 10:40 AM
The floppy is USB and it boots to disk just fine (without CD support). I'm thinking this is specific to Compaq ... if only they would support their hardware and the devices they recommend.
I...
June 24th, 2003, 08:12 AM
Boot from USB device is not an option in the bios. The boot order is floppy, CDROM, hard drive, NIC. Interestingly enough, the blade does not come with an internal floppy or CDROM drive ... they...
June 23rd, 2003, 12:35 PM
I've updated to the latest ROM/bios available ... version 2003.02.17. I'm beginning to wonder if this is faulty hardware ...
June 23rd, 2003, 12:03 PM
Many say it cannot be done ...
I'm trying to create a boot disk with USB CDROM support for a Compaq BL 10e blade server. The blade comes with an adapter that has two usb ports, which is the only...
