installing XP from a 98 boot disk

[The Dancing Peacock]

I know there's a way to do it. I think someone posted it here, but I can't do a full text search and come up with it. I can't do setup.exe, cuz it wont do it from DOS. Anyone know what file I'm supposed to start it from?

 

[TallBill]

i dunno, maybe try the Operating sytems forum... or perhaps tech support

 

[BeauJangles]

I could never get that to work. I don't believe it does, but maybe there is a way around it.

 

[jfall]

The only other way that I know of instead of using the bootable XP CD is to download the 6 XP startup bootdisks. There may also be a way to install it from DOS using Smart Drive but I don't have the specifics on this.

 

[peto]

download the xp bootdisk. http://www.xp-erience.org/download.php?op=getit&lid=58

EDIT: www.xp-erience.org is down, try again later.

 

[UberNeuman]

If you can't boot from the cd, then use the boot disk to enable cd-rom support, then find the I36 folder on the CD and run winnt.exe.

 

[N8Magic]

If its anything like 2K, there should be a program to make a bootdisk on the CD in a directory called BOOTDISK.

It won't work from a 98 bootdisk.

 

[FatAlbo]

XP Pro boot disk images
XP Home boot disk images

Both are direct links to Micro$quish's site.

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

UberNeuman knew what I was talking about. Thanks. If that doesn't work, I'm gonna try the bootdisk links.

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

yea, it works just fine