Win 98 SE to Win 2000 upgrade on IBM ThinkPad 600E

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Hi,

I upgraded Win 98 to Win 2000 on my ThinkPad 600E ( P2-
300 Mhz 96M RAM ). When rebooting, I get the error "The
file NT5INF.CAT on Windows 2000 Professional CD-ROM is
needed". If I click Cancel, I get the error "Setup
failed to install the product catalogs. This is a fatal
error.". If I click OK now, it reboots and goes back
into the same thing again.

After a lot of searching, I found the Microsoft Knowledge
base Article 228852 -
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-
US;228852.

This talks about upgrading the firmware for the CD-ROM
drive. At the IBM site, the CD-ROM firmware update
creates diskettes. However, I don't have a floppy drive
for this computer.

What can I do at this point ?

Thanks,

Gopal