Installing WIN XP or 2000 from DOS? help

[timers]

I really dont know what to do. Ive flashed my FID SD11 bios to the newest, and I have used the make boot disc thing in dos with WIndows 2000. It makes 4 cd's, and all is well, until I get a BSOD, right after the format, and into the installation. . So now I try WIn XP. I have CD-ROM set to 1st boot device, but it says it cant find any boot record on the cd-rom. I dont even think I have cd-rom drivers in. What should I do? I just would like to install either Win XP or 2000 off there bloody cd's from DOS mode, which is all I can be in right now. Thanks.

 

[Colt45]

if you can't boot to the cdrom (did you change the boot sequence in the BIOS?)

make a win98 boot disk (www.bootdisk.com) and put smartdrv on the disk as well (smartdrv is not neccersary, but will speed things up)

boot to the disk, go into FDISK, delete all the partitions. make a new FAT32 one.

reboot (to the win98 floppy)

format the new partition

run:A:\>[smartdrv.exe]

run: (assuming D: is your CD-ROM drive) D:\>\i386\winnt.exe

done

 

[cleverhandle]

If your BIOS supports booting to CD, you don't need drivers to start the installation, so the problem is likely in the disc and not your hardware. Are you using an original disc or a copy?

If you can access your CDROM from DOS, I think you should be able to begin installation by running winnt.exe from the i386 folder on the CD.

edit: bah! beat me to it!