Installing Windows Server 2008 via USB thumbdrive/flashdisk
Windows
2008 comes only on DVD and today you’d think every computer has a DVD
drive by default, unfortunately most servers are ordered without them
and that causes a problem obviously. Your choices would be to break the
DVD into CD-ROMs (not fun) install over the network (a little more work
than I wanted to do) or find another means to get it up. My solution,
USB Thumb drive
Since Vista and Windows 2008 share the same code
base, I figured someone must have found a way to boot vista off a thumb
drive so I looked and found just that. Kurt Shintaku has a how-to on how to install Windows Vista from a high speed USB 2.0 Flash Drive.
Before
you begin though, if your thumbdrive has U3 installed on it, you’ll
probably want to remove that (I did just to be certain), here’s
instructions
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