"no operating system found"

[iamnoman]

Okay, so I'm trying to load 2000pro. The system originally had 98se.
I fdisk'd, formated and set the active partition.
What next? I set the bios to boot from the CDROM but when I start it up it looks as though it loads the drivers for the cdrom, etc.. but it soon gives me a message "no opertaing system found". DUH. I just wiped it! But how do I load another OS?
What did I do wrong and how can I fix it?

 

[Harvey]

Take your CD to another machine that can at least boot to any version of Windoze. On the Win 2K CD you will find a directory called BOOTDISK with a file, MAKEBOOT. That file will create four floppies used to set up Win 2K.

 

[iamnoman]

Thanks for the reply, btw.
I did exactly what you said and see the 4 files (CDBOOT1.IMG, CDBOOT@.IMG, etc..) but when I try to copy these to floppys I get and error message telling me that the file is too large. (I have formatted the discs and made sure there was nothing on them beforehand.)
The size of the files are all the same at 1,440 KB. The disc capacity is 1.44 MB.
What gives?

 

[Harvey]

I run Win 98 SE. I got this info from a couple of friends who use 2K. If I understood them correctly, there should be an executable program called MAKEBOOT.EXE that probably uses the image files to create the disks. If you don't see it in that directory (folder), search the CD for that filename.

 

[iamnoman]

BOO-YAH! That did the trick

Thanks again for your help!
I'll post an update after all is complete..

 

[iamnoman]

mmkay... after 3 tries and replacing 3 corrupted files on the setup discs I finally reached the moment of truth... to find out that there is a probem w/ my 2K disc. F'csk!
Anywho, that's my problem.
Thanks again fo the advise!