Windows 2000 setup

[snakeyeis]

I have two problems regarding windows 2000 setup. My system consists of a p3 550 with 128 Mb ram and onboard vga and sound. The primary IDE on my MBD is spoilt and hence have connected my hdd to the secondary ide. I formatted my system and tried installing windows 2000 from the HDD (which I copied from the CDF before formatting)
Surprisingly, it gave me an error that it would would only in a 32 bit environment. So then, I installed windows 98 and installed 2000 over it. I selected a clean setup so that I could run both the OS and I also installed windows 2000 on my d:. The installation was successful but I was unable to boot to windows 2000, that is the boot menu screen used the freeze before the system even started. So the next time I booted, I used F8 key, selected windows 98 and boot into 98. I am following this procedure ever since. I there any remedy? Is this because my drive is a secondary master or is it because I installed it in d: ? Or it my MBD giving the problem?? Please help.

 

[SPB]

Try switching your secondary master to your primary in the bios. Do this in the boot order settings.

 

[snakeyeis]

How do I do that in the bios?? My HDD is physically connected to the secondary IDE on the MBD but and the primary IDE doesn't work. Also, is there anyway to setup win 2k from DOS?

 

[JnrX]

To setup Win2k from DOS:

At the prompt, type in the drive letter of your cd-rom with colon, e.g e:

then at e:> change the directory to the i386 folder, by typing cd i386 (remember the space)

you'll then have this prompt.....e\i386>

then type winnt to start the installation.