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More info?)
Erik,
Steven Bink has one solution. Check out his web site at
http://old.bink.nu/bootcd/. Here is a link to his current site:
http://bink.nu/.
Bart has a nice web page as well. Here is the link:
http://www.nu2.nu/bootablecd/. And I really like his network boot disk!
There is another solution that I have used in the past. Here is the link
for it: http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?ttid=157.
--
Cary W. Shultz
Roanoke, VA 24014
Microsoft Active Directory MVP
http://www.activedirectory-win2000.com
http://www.grouppolicy-win2000.com
"E. Eggert" <E. Eggert@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A56AFF20-4E61-4ED9-8502-4AD30FFEC89F@microsoft.com...
> Related to this - can I create a bootable install CD-ROM?
>
> I have created a bootable CD (using Roxio) with a copy of all the files
> for
> the four install diskettes (Win 2K Advanced Server) in the root directory
> on
> the CD. I can boot a server from the disk and the install will begin and
> process the files for diskette 1. However, even though the files from
> diskettes 2/3/4 and the "DISK10x" files are on the CD, when the install
> gets
> to "disk 2", it is looking for this floppy in drive A:.
>
> Unfortunately, I do not have a floppy on this machine... and therefore
> would like to be able to do all this from the CD drive.
>
> Regard,
> Erik
>
> "Chris Butcher [MSFT]" wrote:
>
>> The problem is that you can not do it from recovery console as it has
>> limited functionality that is mainly geared towards working on existing
>> systems. If you want to install from flats on a hard drive, you would
>> need
>> to boot to a DOS floppy to access the files. If the drives are formatted
>> with NTFS, then you would need to get something that would allow you to
>> read
>> NTFS and you could run it from there.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Chris
>>
>> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties and confers no
>> rights.
>> Please reply to the newsgroup so that others may benefit.
>>
>> "Brandon" <Brandon@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:264D8098-8E7B-4AEC-8438-490CB2DD50C7@microsoft.com...
>> >I tried using the recovery console (both the one on the hard drive and
>> >the
>> >cd
>> > rom version) to install via source files copied to the hard drive.
>> > Neither
>> > would let me do it. Is there a way to install Win 2k from the hard
>> > drive?
>> > If so, should the $OEM$ structure follow the CD ROM or the Network
>> > install
>> > format?
>>
>>
>>
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