No DVD drive – No problem
Posted by avilov on 10-1-2008
How to install windows 2008 server on a server without DVD drive.
Easy!
you need on USB flash drive and a Vista PC
steps:
- diskpart
- list disk
- select disk 1 (the correct number for your PC you get from the previous command)
- clean
- create partition primary
- select partition 1
- active
- format fs=fat32
- assign
- exit
- copy content of the windows 2008 DVD to the flash drive
That’s it! Now boot from it annd install! I guess you guessed already that you need server that can boot from USB flash drive 
P.S. that is an adaptation of instruction how to install Vista found at http://kurtsh.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!DA410C7F7E038D!1665.entry
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