basically if you have a floppy boot disk that loads cd rom drivers migrate to the rom and run setup manually. http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
may have what ya need. I'm sure I have one laying around here somewhere. fp At 11:37 AM 1/13/2009, Christopher Fisk Poked the stick with: >On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, DHSinclair wrote: > >>I have a really old machine. Its' bios is so stupid that it does not offer >>booting from a CDROM! It offers only 2 option: >>HardDrive then Diskette >>Diskette then HardDrive >> >>I tried to upgrade its' W2Kpro system to XP. This failed when the boot disk >>ran out of space! Well, duh! Hard drive was scsi on a 2940UW. >>OK, replaced the drive with a 9.13GB that is formatted ntfs w/1 primary >>partition. >> >>I've studied for 2 days and now have an XP boot diskette constructed. It >>points to the proper disk (scsi id=0), but then fails because the drive is >>blank at the moment. >> >>It will NOT point post-bios to the pata CDROM to do the SETUP.EXE and install >>XP. I suspect the boot.ini file is the problem, but I do not know how to >>correct it to point at the CDROM. >> >>Can anyone suggest a workaround or repair to my boot.ini file? The current >>boot.ini reads: >> >>[boot loader] >>timeout=30 >>Default= multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows >>[operating systems] >>multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows="Microsoft Windows XP >>Professional" >> >>Thankyou, >>Duncan > > >Have you tried this: > >http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310994 > >I think it ends up making 3 floppies, but gets you to the startup point. > > > >Christopher Fisk >-- >Bart: Dad, you killed the Zombie Flanders! >Homer: He was a zombie? > Treehouse of Horror III > >-- >This message has been scanned for viruses and >dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >believed to be clean. -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- To get ahead and stay ahead, use your head.
