Laptop problem cant install windows!

[jammir]

got a old Dell Latitude LS. PII 500 and so on it doesnt have a floppy or optical drive and doesnt boot from a usb floppy, usb or pcmcia DVD-Rom.

I tried doing the install on another laptop then putting the drive back in the dell but i get a blue screen

Is there a way to get around this problem?

 

[split]

It doesnt have a CD drive?

Would it be..

Dell Latitude LS PIII 500mhz Internet Ready Used Laptop

* Intel PIII 500mhz Processor
* 256 meg RAM
* 30 Gig Hard Drive
* 12 inch TFT Color display
* CDROM Drive <<<<
* 56k modem
* 10/100 NIC
* Built in sound and speakers
* 1 PCMCIA Slot
* Parallel and USB Ports
* Microsoft Windows 2000 Pro
* OpenOffice Software included
* AC adapter
* Battery (not warranted)
* Comes with our Limited Lifetime warranty

 

[jammir]

* Intel PIII 500mhz Processor
* 256 meg RAM mine is 128mb
* 30 Gig Hard Drive mine is 6gb
* 12 inch TFT Color display
* CDROM Drive <<<< mine used to have a external one which i dont now
* 56k modem
* 10/100 NIC
* Built in sound and speakers
* 1 PCMCIA Slot
* Parallel and USB Ports
* Microsoft Windows 2000 Pro
* OpenOffice Software included
* AC adapter
* Battery (not warranted)
* Comes with our Limited Lifetime warranty

other then that its pretty much like the above

 

[split]

It's possible to install XP across a network (I noticed 10/100 NIC)

To do it you need a DOS network boot disk.
I can't see how you can even get that on there tho

OK...this might work. (seeing as you have the hard drive out)
Partition the hard disc into 2 bits. One large primary partition, and one smaller one (about 700mbs).
Format both, and copy the contents on the XP CD to the small partiton.
Boot to the hard disc...and find the smaller partition (prolly D: )

I doubt you will be able to run setup from it. It will proly be D:\I386\winnt.exe

Thats brief as it's late.

 

[ns400r]

Put the hard drive back in another laptop.


Make 2 partitons.
Format the first as DOS fat32 and make it a dos system disk (bootable).
Make the make the second also DOS and just big enough to hold the i386 folder from the XP CD.

Boot from partiton1 and install Windows from the second partition.