Booting to XP setup without boot disk...

[Pastore]

my buddy told me that you can use a WIn98 boot disk to get to DOS and from there run the XP setup program from DOS using the setup command...

well, i just formatted my machine, popped in the boot disk and when I enter the 'setup' command i get a message saying "Thes program cannot be run in DOS mode"

how to i get this thing to install without a boot disk?!?!?

 

[gentobu]

you have to go to the i386 dir and type winnt.

 

[Pastore]

you rock

 

[Pastore]

ok i got to setup...

it starts copying files for a minute or so, then it just hangs where it says "Copying files to your computer" or something alike...

CDROM doesnt spin and harddrive doesnt either... any ideas?

 

[Pastore]

help!!!!

 

[Pastore]

anyone?

 

[amdskip]

Wouldn't it be easier to just set your computer to boot off the cd or am I missing something here?

 

[zigCorsair]

<< Wouldn't it be easier to just set your computer to boot off the cd or am I missing something here? >>


what he said.

also, you might want to try deleting your format (via the XP setup program) and reformatting as NTFS.