Installing Win2k from the Hard Drive?

[Kelemvor]

Howdy,

This probably belongs in the OS forum but I'm hoping to get an answer really quickly because I'm sitting here ready to install this thing and not many people check that forum on the weekends....

Anyway,

I have a formatted hard drive that I want to put my copy of Windows 2k on. Normally with Win9x you can just copy the Windows CD to the Hard Drive and then run it from there and then you never have to worry about putting the CD in for anything it would want to install of itself later.

Can this be done with Win2k? I copied the CD to the HDD but when I try to run any of the programs, It just says "This program cannot be run in MS DOS mode". Is there some way around this or am I forced to install it off the CD?

Thanks!

 

[bugsysiegel]

yes, go to the i386 sub directory under the winnt directory and use "winnt"

 

[KingNothing]

Just out of curiousity, what's wrong with booting off the CD and installing from there?

 

[Kelemvor]

Originally posted by: KingNothing
Just out of curiousity, what's wrong with booting off the CD and installing from there?

Because then if anything doesn't get installed on the first run and then we need to use it for whatever reason, then you have to go fid the CD and put it in so it can install needed files. This way it already knows where to go and I never have to use the CD again.

Same reason to install Office from the HDD instead of the CD.

 

[Kelemvor]

Originally posted by: bugsysiegel
yes, go to the i386 sub directory under the winnt directory and use "winnt"

Ah thanks. Working like a charm now.