One more inane 2K ?. Does the OEM version come with the 4 boot floppies, or is the CD bootable?

[MichaelD]

Wait a minute...don't you have to load the generic CDR drivers first? I could use my 98 bootdisk. Please tell me. Thanks.

 

[HansXP]

Your BIOS should support booting directly from a CD-ROM. Just slip the CD in, make sure the CD is set as the first boot option, and go!

 

[Ladi]

The OEM version should be bootable. If you have problems booting, use the makeboot/makebt32 utility on the CD to create the necessary boot flooppies or use a 98 bootdisk and run i386\winnt.exe on the CD.

~Ladi

 

[MichaelD]

Wow, snazzy! Bootable CDRom...what'll they think of next! Cool. Thanks for the zippy replies. I'm on a "y" quest today; snazzy, zippy, pippy, etc. Don't ask why...I've no idea. I had Polish Sausage w/tons of onions for lunch. Onions weird me out. Craz[y], no? Later, guys.

 

[HansXP]

<< Wow, snazzy! Bootable CDRom >>



hehe, you didn't know about they could do that?

 

[MGMorden]

<< Wow, snazzy! Bootable CDRom...what'll they think of next! Cool. >>



Um, bootable cd-roms have been around for 4 or 5 years now.

 

[MichaelD]

Well, I knew about &quot;auto start&quot;, but I thought that B4 you could boot from a CDR, you had to have CDR drivers installed first, else the CD wouldn't start spinning to boot from the CDR. Whew, what a mouthful! I guess I didn't know. Never loaded W2K B4. Used it at work for about 3 months, but then changed jobs, now I&quot;m on NT. Boooorrrring. The SA's have us locked out of everything. Can't change a darn thing. These boxes (Dell Optiplex GX110's) arent't bad. They even come with a 16mb TnT videocard. The drivers are antiquated though. I tried to see if I could put the latest Dets on there...locked out. Darn SAs!