Setup from disks

[Mrich]

Hello,
I have laptop without a cd drive, only a floppy drive.
I have made the W2K setup disks from another machine but I am unable to
complete the installation because I get the message that setup is unable to
continue because no CD drive is detected. I do have a usb connection with a
usb CD but I get the same message.
Can you help me ?
Mrich

 

[Johan Arwidmark]

You could try to install over the network instead....

Copy the installation files to a share on another computer. create a
boot floppy with ndis2 network drivers , connect to the share using
net use and then start the install over the network...

Or boot from another platform the supports your nic, can connect to a
network resource holding the installation files and execute the winnt
or winnt32 application...

If you have a RIS Server on your network you can also use that for
installing the operating system over the network. There are also other
thirdparty PXE solutions that can do that.

regards
Johan Arwidmark

Windows User Group - Nordic
http://www.wug-nordic.net