Windows2000 Pro Question...

[wnied]

I have a client laptop that I want to completely nuke the drive and install Windows 2000 pro into. Easy right? This laptop doesnt have a CDROM drive, only a floppy drive. But, it is connected to my in house LAN. I can get it to see one of my other computers CDROM drive, but Im not quite sure how to install an OS over a networked drive...

Has anyone done this? If so could you please help me here?
Many Thanks in advance for any help.
~wnied~

 

[ojai00]

If you can see the networked computer's drive, then you can try copying the files over to the local drive and then running setup from there. Hope this helps.

 

[JRez]

Exactly as ojai said. Create a shared directory on C: that contains the Win2K installation. From there, create an MS-DOS boot disk that contains the necessary drivers and whatnot to allow use of the NIC. Add to the autoexec.bat file a line to create another drive that points to the shared folder.

(i.e. NET USE <drive letter of your choice that's not taken and not C:> \\<your computer name>\<shared folder name>)

You'll then change to that drive letter once the boot from the floppy has completed and run Setup from the chosen drive letter.