Problem installing Win2K

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stlock

I have recently purchased an Intel Server, that has three 120GB SATA
drives connected in Raid 5. The controller is a Promise Fasttrak. THE
SERVER DID NOT COME WITH A FLOPPY DRIVE.

Problem is... when installing Win2K, I press F6 during the initial
setup to install drivers for the controller card, I then press "S" and
get the following error message:

An unexpected error (0) occurred at line 962 in
D:\nt\private\ntos\boot\setup\oemdisk.c.

Not sure if this is because I don't have a floppy drive connected to
the server?

Please help. I am desperate to get this server up and running.
 
P

Pegasus \(MVP\)

I have recently purchased an Intel Server, that has three 120GB SATA
drives connected in Raid 5. The controller is a Promise Fasttrak. THE
SERVER DID NOT COME WITH A FLOPPY DRIVE.

Problem is... when installing Win2K, I press F6 during the initial
setup to install drivers for the controller card, I then press "S" and
get the following error message:

An unexpected error (0) occurred at line 962 in
D:\nt\private\ntos\boot\setup\oemdisk.c.

Not sure if this is because I don't have a floppy drive connected to
the server?

Please help. I am desperate to get this server up and running.

The easy solution is to temporarily connect a floppy disk drive
so that the setup program can read your drivers disk. Buy one
or steal one from another machine!
 
D

Dave Patrick

If your drive controller isn't natively supported then you'll need to temp
connect a floppy drive or look at doing an unattended installation.

http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/Library/3983c4a4-e6ff-4664-8425-28ec740474b11033.mspx
http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/Library/e0ce9352-2542-43f6-b03c-e928917d0b3f1033.mspx

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
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|I have recently purchased an Intel Server, that has three 120GB SATA
| drives connected in Raid 5. The controller is a Promise Fasttrak. THE
| SERVER DID NOT COME WITH A FLOPPY DRIVE.
|
| Problem is... when installing Win2K, I press F6 during the initial
| setup to install drivers for the controller card, I then press "S" and
| get the following error message:
|
| An unexpected error (0) occurred at line 962 in
| D:\nt\private\ntos\boot\setup\oemdisk.c.
|
| Not sure if this is because I don't have a floppy drive connected to
| the server?
|
| Please help. I am desperate to get this server up and running.
|
 

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