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A friend gave me a laptop and am trying to figure out a clever way to install an os. it has an A drive, USB port, serial and parallel. Its an HP Omnibook 3000ctx.

since it starts off in dos and stops there, I tried to see if it would recognize the usb memory stick (256mb cruzer mini) so I could install it from there, but typing in abcdefghij with a : after it, the only drive it sees is the C: drive. Anyone have an idea how to possibly hook it up to my desktop to recognize an external drive with the serial or parallel port, or have another idea. Yes, I could go probably go buy something external or see if I could maybe find a cdrom for this laptop, but Im going to school and need a clever way not an expensive way.

Thanks,

Tom

DOS wont reconize a thing, it is just a command prompt.. What I suggest you do is purchase a USB CD-ROM drive and install it from there ... Hope this helps

I did some searching for you and found this:

http://www.computing.net/dos/wwwboard/forum/14818.html

Install those drivers and then see if your memory stick starts showing up. Once that's there, try copying all the files from a fresh install of Windows to your computer with the memory stick.

Well I do know that Windows 3.1 comes on a set of floppies...and I remember someone saying that they had a set of Windows 95 floppies. You could use those OS's, although they are rather quite old.

What I suggest you do is purchase a USB CD-ROM drive and install it from there

Or you can do that!

Or an alternative os?..once u have the usb port going then life will get easier.say install 95 and use to install me or whatever........
a 98lite installation might be a good option if space is limited(asnd speed)