October 11th 2004 Posted in
general
Related link:
http://h18007.www1.hp.com/support/files/hpcpqdt/us/download/20306.html
UPDATED LINK
I found a couple of links for creating bootable flash drives that I found useful.
How to boot from a USB device … has good instructions, and this worked for me, and took about 20 minutes.
Then I found this utility: HP bootable flash utility
And it worked for me as well, and took about a minute.
(old link: here)
The cool thing is, the HP utility is reported to work with many other flash drives - I have a no-name USB 2.0 thumb drive, made it bootable with the HP utility on a 1.1 USB bus, and then used it to boot a Via EPIA-M2 computer by setting the BIOS to “boot from USB hard drive”.
Although I’m quite comfortable with the command line and a 2 page FAQ, running a GUI and clicking “make bootable” sure speeds things up.