Windows 2000 Install

[Duncan Newell]

I have a laptop that i wish to format and put windows 2000 on it. One
problem is i don't have a cd-rom for the laptop only a floppy drive. I have
loan an external cd-rom that connects via lpt1 and i have the .sys driver,
now the driver is for its caddy a aspi one, the aspi driver loads ok but i
cant get any driver to work with the cd rom i have in the caddy. ive tried
a few different cd-roms now, has anyone a basic boot disk i can modify, ive
wrote one myself to get this far but cant get the cd rom to detect after
aspi driver loads.

I've connected this to my main pc and it detects the cd rom ok so i know it
works, its just a matter of getting it working in dos mode so i can kick a
2000 install off.

I've also tried using the 4 win 2000 boot floppy's but it wont find the cd
that way, unless there is a way to add it some how ?

Thanks

Duncan

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Try the Win98 boot disk available from www.bootdisk.com.

Alternatively, if you're game, you could make yourself a
network boot disk (http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/)
and use it to connect to another machine with shared
CD drive:

 

[Duncan Newell]

Try the Win98 boot disk available from www.bootdisk.com.

Alternatively, if you're game, you could make yourself a
network boot disk (http://www.nu2.nu/bootdisk/network/)
and use it to connect to another machine with shared
CD drive:

I've got so far with this now but a few questions, not having a CD rom in
the laptop i am using a external LPT port one, Booting from windows 2000
floppy's it don't detect it, is there anyway i can add the cd rom driver to
the windows floppy's boot so it will detect it ?

I've formatted the laptop and got it just to boot and loaded the cd drivers
in dos mode and it picks the cd up, obviously i cant run windows 2000 set-up
from dos as it don't allow it from there with setup.exe how can i get 2000
on it ?

Duncan

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

but kick the

I've got so far with this now but a few questions, not having a CD rom in
the laptop i am using a external LPT port one, Booting from windows 2000
floppy's it don't detect it, is there anyway i can add the cd rom driver to
the windows floppy's boot so it will detect it ?

I've formatted the laptop and got it just to boot and loaded the cd drivers
in dos mode and it picks the cd up, obviously i cant run windows 2000 set-up
from dos as it don't allow it from there with setup.exe how can i get 2000
on it ?

Duncan

"obviously i cant run windows 2000 set-up from dos" - of course you can
if you can detect the CD drive! Do this:
d:
cd \i386
winnt