Thanks you all for your help. Just now going to try to get everything
working per you all's advice. I will first try an IDE rom and see if it
will boot from there.....
Shep.. it is an upgrade OEM version NOT the full version of XP. When
doing a clean install of XP the upgrade version(as I have for a few
friends) it will ask for your OEM copy of 98/SE/ME to make sure that you
can "legitimately" just upgrade. For the past 2 PC's I've installed XP on
(upgrade version) it booted from cdrom no problem.
As for copying that i386 folder I did as you said and then
posted back but typo'ed out an important factor. When I copied the i386
file I thought you meant run the setup.exe file from there. There is NO
setup.exe file in the i386 folder. I do believe although I typo'ed that
message you understood what I meant as your next post read like you
understood. From what I gather now I am supposed to copy the whole XP cd on
my HDD and then run setup.exe.....thanks again for your time and help.....
Ron
| On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 18:42:19 -0500, "rferoni" <
[email protected]>
| wrote:
|
| >Don't know what you mean about bios "type" but I have gone into bios and
set
| >the boot sequence to cd rom. My cd rom is actually a scsi cd burner/rom
| >but I don't think that should be a problem. As for booting I've actually
| >set the WHOLE boot order to cdrom. I also tried setting it to SCSI as
there
| >is an option for this. Still nothing. I CAN get the XP cd to run if I
just
| >boot to win98 but I started this process yesterday and it didn't give me
the
| >option to use NTFS, which I want to do. I'm not sure if I made it far
| >enough into the process but to format and set the file system should be
the
| >first things done. Still stumped.....
| >
| >Ron
| >
|
| AFAIK, the CD boot feature in most system BIOSes applies to ATAPI/IDE
| drives only, so you are hosed in that regard. I don't know if the SCSI
| BIOS will boot a CD.
|
| >
| >| >| You need to look into your bios for some boot sequence info. On mine,
| >Boot,
| >| is a major category along the top of the screen. Maybe if you list the
| >bios
| >| type here, someone will know the exact place to look.
| >|
| >| | >| > Don't know whats going on as I've installed 2 XP's for friends.
Doing
| >my
| >| > own now and having trouble. I'm upgrading from 98. I'm doing a new
| >| install
| >| > as I just like to install this way better. I CANNOT get my PC to
boot
| >| from
| >| > the cdrom. I've tried a bootdisk but it will not give me the option
to
| >| boot
| >| > from cdrom. I'm not even sure my pc is reading the cd rom although
it
| >| works
| >| > fine and is "working properly" when the PC boots up. When I bring up
| >the
| >| > bios I do not see the cdrom listed(as are the HDD and floppy)
Shouldn't
| >| is
| >| > say something about the cdrom under IDE primary/secondary? Any
ideas??
| >| >
| >| > Ron
| >| >
| >| >
| >| >
| >|
| >|
| >
|
