Hey guys, I was at work earlier this week and my boss asked me to put win2000 on a couple of old IBM thinkpads (I forgot which model). They are pretty old, PII w/DVD-ROM, no floppy or NIC, has just dial up modem - which made the autorebuild from the NIC not an option.
It had win98 on it but I wanted to boot from the CD. It didn't boot from the CD, so I tried the four floppy (used external drive), after the floppies were done loading, the computer said it could not recognize the CD? The newer Dell workstations seem to be able to boot from it fine. And YES, I did set the computer to boot from floppy, CD, HD order.
Anyway, what I did was finally boot in win98, pop the CD in and basically followed this guide. What finally WORKED was checking this - copy all setup files to hard drive.
So it went through fine.
BUT I want to know how I can copy the install files to the HD from the CD from DOS.
Say I have the win98 bootdisk and the win2000 CD.
I figure I FDISK first, then format the drive. What's the command to copy the setup file or how do I acheve this?
Whew.
It had win98 on it but I wanted to boot from the CD. It didn't boot from the CD, so I tried the four floppy (used external drive), after the floppies were done loading, the computer said it could not recognize the CD? The newer Dell workstations seem to be able to boot from it fine. And YES, I did set the computer to boot from floppy, CD, HD order.
Anyway, what I did was finally boot in win98, pop the CD in and basically followed this guide. What finally WORKED was checking this - copy all setup files to hard drive.
So it went through fine.
BUT I want to know how I can copy the install files to the HD from the CD from DOS.
Say I have the win98 bootdisk and the win2000 CD.
I figure I FDISK first, then format the drive. What's the command to copy the setup file or how do I acheve this?
Whew.