How am I supposed to boot off a SCSI cd on a Win2K install?

[mulder]

This will be my first time installing Win2K. I have a Tekram DC390U2W SCSI card and a Plextor 40x CD-ROM. I went to Tekram's site and they said that the install will autodetect the SCSI card. However, I am going to have to have the card already detected in order to boot from it for the Win2K install. So, how do I do that? Do I have to load certain drivers or something in DOS or what?

Secondly, I have an old hard drive that has old data on it. This drive will be my main drive in my new machine with Win2K. Do I need to do a low-level format in the Tekram BIOS on it or will fdisk be fine?

 

[RPB]

i could be wrong but i think you need to set the mb bios to boot from scsi and also set the scsi card bios to boot from cd

 

[Cyph3r]

Simple, as RPB suggested. Go into your BIOS. Under the Advanced Menu(or something similar) you'll find a option reading boot order...you'll want to change that to SCSI,C,A and which will cause your SCSI system to be the first bootable device. If you have a bootable CD(which W2K is), then it'll boot into it directly before booting from your HD..Regards

 

[mulder]

Thanks for the help. It worked fine. However, I have some other problems, so I am going to start a new thread with a different title if that's fine. Thanks again.