Installing Windows 2000 Professional...

[Guest]

I have Windows 2000 Professional on CD and want to install it onto a computer
which is not quite able to run XP and I made boot disks using the
mkboot32.exe command which resides on the CD... I got through all four
floppies when I put them into the computer at fault, it was starting windows
2000 and then said because I don't have a cd-rom drive in the computer, I
can't install Windows 2000?!?!? I thought the point of booting from the disks
is so you don't have a cd-rom you can still install the program... I really
would like to install Win2k to this computer..It's like a 400 Mhz processor,
64 mb ram, 2 Gb hard drive... It's not functional to XP requirements..Please
help if anyone can?!?!?

 

[Dave Patrick]

If you have no CD-Rom drive then you'll need to run winnt.exe from the \i386
directory after you have copied it to the fixed disk.

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:
|I have Windows 2000 Professional on CD and want to install it onto a
computer
| which is not quite able to run XP and I made boot disks using the
| mkboot32.exe command which resides on the CD... I got through all four
| floppies when I put them into the computer at fault, it was starting
windows
| 2000 and then said because I don't have a cd-rom drive in the computer, I
| can't install Windows 2000?!?!? I thought the point of booting from the
disks
| is so you don't have a cd-rom you can still install the program... I
really
| would like to install Win2k to this computer..It's like a 400 Mhz
processor,
| 64 mb ram, 2 Gb hard drive... It's not functional to XP
requirements..Please
| help if anyone can?!?!?

 

[Steve Parry [MVP]]

Joe Cavalieri fumbled, fiddled and fingered:

I have Windows 2000 Professional on CD and want to install it onto a
computer which is not quite able to run XP and I made boot disks
using the mkboot32.exe command which resides on the CD... I got
through all four floppies when I put them into the computer at fault,
it was starting windows 2000 and then said because I don't have a
cd-rom drive in the computer, I can't install Windows 2000?!?!? I
thought the point of booting from the disks is so you don't have a
cd-rom you can still install the program... I really would like to
install Win2k to this computer..It's like a 400 Mhz processor, 64 mb
ram, 2 Gb hard drive... It's not functional to XP
requirements..Please help if anyone can?!?!?

The boot disks are for machines that do not support bootable cdroms,
they allow (and require) access to the CDROM so continue the install.

The only other way around this for you would be to transfer the hard
drive to another PC as a slave drive, format it as a MSDOS bootable
disc. Then copy the i386 folder from the CD to the HD, replace the HD
back to the original PC and run the install from the i386 folder

 

[Guest]

What do you have to do to run this..The laptop is running windows 98.. Do I
just copy that file to a floppy and then run it when I'm running 98, or will
it execute on the boot?
Thanks!
-Joe Cavalieri

 

[Guest]

The computer is a laptop.. so I can't do that...

Joe Cavalieri fumbled, fiddled and fingered:


The boot disks are for machines that do not support bootable cdroms,
they allow (and require) access to the CDROM so continue the install.

The only other way around this for you would be to transfer the hard
drive to another PC as a slave drive, format it as a MSDOS bootable
disc. Then copy the i386 folder from the CD to the HD, replace the HD
back to the original PC and run the install from the i386 folder

 

[Steve Parry [MVP]]

Joe Cavalieri fumbled, fiddled and fingered:

The computer is a laptop.. so I can't do that...

In that case then I'd suggest you get a CDROM for it either a parallel
port/pcmcia or USB one

Or

Ensure you have a network connection and transfer the i386 folder over
the network connection. The i386 folder is almost 300mb so you need to
transfer the files somehow.....

or

get a 512mb USB memory key transfer the folder from a desktop cd drive.
Then Transfer the folder to the laptop ... of course you'll need an OS
on the laptop in order to read the USB disk.

 

[John John]

You could always transfer the files over a network. In any case the
laptop barely meets the system requirements for Windows 2000. The
Emperor penguins of Antarctica will walk faster than your pc! I would
keep W98.

Windows 2000 System Requirements
http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/professional/evaluation/sysreqs/

John

What do you have to do to run this..The laptop is running windows 98.. Do I
just copy that file to a floppy and then run it when I'm running 98, or will
it execute on the boot?
Thanks!
-Joe Cavalieri

:

If you have no CD-Rom drive then you'll need to run winnt.exe from the \i386
directory after you have copied it to the fixed disk.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
|I have Windows 2000 Professional on CD and want to install it onto a
computer
| which is not quite able to run XP and I made boot disks using the
| mkboot32.exe command which resides on the CD... I got through all four
| floppies when I put them into the computer at fault, it was starting
windows
| 2000 and then said because I don't have a cd-rom drive in the computer, I
| can't install Windows 2000?!?!? I thought the point of booting from the
disks
| is so you don't have a cd-rom you can still install the program... I
really
| would like to install Win2k to this computer..It's like a 400 Mhz
processor,
| 64 mb ram, 2 Gb hard drive... It's not functional to XP
requirements..Please
| help if anyone can?!?!?

 

[Bob I]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=laptop+IDE+adapter

 

[Dave Patrick]

You'll need to copy the entire \i386 directory and run winnt.exe from there.

--
Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

:
| What do you have to do to run this..The laptop is running windows 98.. Do
I
| just copy that file to a floppy and then run it when I'm running 98, or
will
| it execute on the boot?
| Thanks!
| -Joe Cavalieri

 

[JM]

quoting:

The computer is a laptop.. so I can't do that...

Since the machine has windows 98 on it, see if you can get access to
another computer with a cdrom drive. Install a temporary freeware web
server or ftp server on that computer. Copy the contents of the cd into the
root directory of the web/ftp server. Now go to the laptop and simply
download the contents of the win2k cd into a temporary location. You may
simply plug into a router or do a direct connection with a crossover cable
for this.