Andrew,
1) I find it extremely hard to believe that the OP doesn't have access to a floppy drive in any way... No access to a floppy drive through coworkers, other machines in the business (assuming this is for business), friends, family, old machine sitting unused in storage, etc etc...? Heck, a USB floppy drive can be bought at the local Wal-Mart or electronics store for $15 if the OP was that desperate to get this done... Even if the OP didn't have access to a floppy and wasn't willing to part with $15 there are NT4 boot-disk images available already on the 'net which can be found in the first hit on Google with the right terms... Whether the OP trusts those images or is willing to work into that "grey" legal area is totally up to him... 2) Did you even bother to read my whole response? I also gave a solution that doesn't require a floppy drive (in any way). Yes, it may require more time and effort to create a new bootable CD, but it negates the need for a floppy altogether. 3) In short, I provided two solutions, at least one of which should help the OP work through his problem. Sorry if this sounds a bit rude, but I'm unsure how to say it politely: Your comment added no useful information to the thread... If your comment is not going to provide value to the discussion, why bother responding? Nothing personal, Joe P From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, December 03, 2009 9:03 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT | Favour Yes but he said he didn't have a floppy drive and your solution still requires a floppy drive. Andrew 2009/12/3 Joe Pochedley <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> You wouldn't need a physical floppy drive for a VM environment. HyperV and Vmware (and I would presume other VM environments) allow you to mount a floppy image into the virtual floppy drive. You could then create your own floppy images from any machine that does have a floppy and copy them over to the VM environment. Alternately, there are ways to create a bootable NT4 CD and negate the need for the floppies.... Start at this page: http://www.nu2.nu/bootcd/#nt4 Enjoy. Joe P From: Andrew Levicki [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 7:02 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Re: OT | Favour He said he didn't have a floppy drive. 2009/12/2 Damien Solodow <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> Interesting. Since you're looking for a vhd, is this a VM machine? If so, you can add a virtual floppy drive to the VM and have it point that to an image file. Then you can make the boot floppies into the image files with no physical drive required. From: KevinM [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 5:44 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT | Favour I have a CD, but it does not seem to be bootable..... Kevinm | WLKMMAS | This message is Certified Swine Flu Free | http://www.hedonists.ca<http://www.hedonists.ca/> From: Damien Solodow [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 2:29 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: RE: OT | Favour You don't have an NT4 cd? From: KevinM [mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 5:28 PM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: OT | Favour I need to build a new NT4 server. Anyone have a prebuilt VHD I can borrow? I don't have a floppy drive to build the 3 disks to install with, and there does not seem to be an ISO in MSDN.... Kevinm | WLKMMAS | This message is Certified Swine Flu Free |
