I got a Dell SX270 with the floppy drive, and no CD. I have 3 other XP PRO machines on my home network (no AD, DHCP, DNS). I want to install WIN 2K PRO on the SX270, but it has no CD. I tried a external USB CD but I could not get it to boot. I tried a network boot disk, which allowed me to map the shared drives of the other machines, but WIN 2K PRO will not install from a DOS boot disk. I can copy the entire WIN2K PRO CD onto the SX270 with xcopy. How do I install it from an HD copy, or is there a way to install it while its connected to the network, or is there a boot disk that will allow me to boot from the USB CD. I am limited to working with what I already have.