Instalng winXP frm Upgrade dsk:Do I have to instal ME first?

[fishquail]

Hi. I have new AMD opteron 270's dual processor system on Tyan K8WE Motherboard; Im about to instal window s XP upgrade version 2002. -Which means I have to go threw the tedious process of installing Windows ME first and then using that as a base to instal XP upgrade. -My question: Is there a better way? -Is there some way of bypassing having to instal ME?

2) Does old windows ME even support these new AMD 64bit processors? -Will it even instal? -Will I have to buy a new copy of windows?

 

[bront]

Try. See if it will boot from the upgrade disk. I believe it will.

 

[sturm]

Boot the computer from the upgrade xp disk. The installation will ask for a previous version of windows. Insert the windows me disk. It will scan the disk and then ask you to put in the xp disk again. Continue install from there like normal.

Its best not to install ME and then do an upgrade. You can also do a "clean" install from windows ME but why? Just do a clean install without installing ME

 

[TunaSoda]

The XP installer just needs to verify the ME CD for the upgrade to qualify, there is no need to install ME

 

[fishquail]

Ok, I found this:

Boot from single win XP boot disk i got from "Bootdisk.com" floppy, type:
R:
cdi386
winnt

Windows XP startup begins. Solved