(Msg. 1) Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 8:39 pm
Post subject: install on a machine with no floppy, and CDROM won't boot Archived from groups: microsoft>public>windowsnt>setup (more info?)
I have an old POS (Point of Sale) machine that is no longer supported by the
company that made it (NEC), at least not withouth paying more than the
device is worth. It is from '99, has Win NT on it, is small, and has a
really nice touchescreen built-in. I want it just to play with, maybe a
music player front end for my house or something. I want to install Windows
2000 on it. It has no floppy disk port, and I can get a CDROM drive plugged
in (by leaving it in pieces) but it has no BIOS support for booting to the
CDROM. All my Windows 2000 install disks have to boot to work. I tried to
install windows 2000 to the hard disk and then go through the 'switching to
a new motherboard' procedure, but it also requires booting on the CDROM.
Perhaps I could make a spare hard disk think it's a win 2K install CDROM,
but how? Anyone have any ideas on that or anyother method?
(Msg. 2) Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 9:51 am
Post subject: Re: install on a machine with no floppy, and CDROM won't boot [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
As long as you can boot the machine in some form or other you can copy
the i386 folder from the cd-rom to the hard disk and then launch
winnt.exe or winnt32.exe from the folder to do the installation. You
use winnt.exe if you do it from DOS and winnt32.exe if you want to
upgrade an existing Windows installation. Use the /b switch to specify
a floppyless installation. Example:
[drive]:\I386\WINNT.EXE /B
[drive]:\I386\WINNT32.EXE /B
John
Corey Cooper wrote:
> I have an old POS (Point of Sale) machine that is no longer supported by the
> company that made it (NEC), at least not withouth paying more than the
> device is worth. It is from '99, has Win NT on it, is small, and has a
> really nice touchescreen built-in. I want it just to play with, maybe a
> music player front end for my house or something. I want to install Windows
> 2000 on it. It has no floppy disk port, and I can get a CDROM drive plugged
> in (by leaving it in pieces) but it has no BIOS support for booting to the
> CDROM. All my Windows 2000 install disks have to boot to work. I tried to
> install windows 2000 to the hard disk and then go through the 'switching to
> a new motherboard' procedure, but it also requires booting on the CDROM.
>
> Perhaps I could make a spare hard disk think it's a win 2K install CDROM,
> but how? Anyone have any ideas on that or anyother method?
>
> C.
>
>
(Msg. 3) Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:00 am
Post subject: Re: install on a machine with no floppy, and CDROM won't boot [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
PS. Are you sure that the machine will run Windows 2000 and are you
sure that the necessary drivers for Windows 2000 even exist for the
machine? It mght just be easier to get NT4 to run your mucic player.
John
John John wrote:
> As long as you can boot the machine in some form or other you can copy
> the i386 folder from the cd-rom to the hard disk and then launch
> winnt.exe or winnt32.exe from the folder to do the installation. You
> use winnt.exe if you do it from DOS and winnt32.exe if you want to
> upgrade an existing Windows installation. Use the /b switch to specify
> a floppyless installation. Example:
>
> [drive]:\I386\WINNT.EXE /B
>
> [drive]:\I386\WINNT32.EXE /B
>
> John
>
> Corey Cooper wrote:
>
>> I have an old POS (Point of Sale) machine that is no longer supported
>> by the company that made it (NEC), at least not withouth paying more
>> than the device is worth. It is from '99, has Win NT on it, is small,
>> and has a really nice touchescreen built-in. I want it just to play
>> with, maybe a music player front end for my house or something. I
>> want to install Windows 2000 on it. It has no floppy disk port, and I
>> can get a CDROM drive plugged in (by leaving it in pieces) but it has
>> no BIOS support for booting to the CDROM. All my Windows 2000 install
>> disks have to boot to work. I tried to install windows 2000 to the
>> hard disk and then go through the 'switching to a new motherboard'
>> procedure, but it also requires booting on the CDROM.
>>
>> Perhaps I could make a spare hard disk think it's a win 2K install
>> CDROM, but how? Anyone have any ideas on that or anyother method?
>>
>> C.
>>
>>
(Msg. 4) Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:03 am
Post subject: Re: install on a machine with no floppy, and CDROM won't boot [Login to view extended thread Info.] Archived from groups: per prev. post (more info?)
>I want to install Windows
>2000 on it. It has no floppy disk port, and I can get a CDROM drive plugged
>in (by leaving it in pieces) but it has no BIOS support for booting to the
>CDROM.
Does it have a USB port? Maybe it can boot DOS from a USB floppy?
>All my Windows 2000 install disks have to boot to work.
You can also install Windows 2000 from MS-DOS, by executing
i386\winnt.exe.
If there is no other way to boot than the hard disk, you can
temporarily move the disk to another machine, and install MS-DOS. From
there, you can either copy the Windows CD to the hard disk, or you
could install MS-DOS drivers to access the CD-ROM from MS-DOS.
Make sure you install Smartdrive, the disk cache driver for MS-DOS. It
speeds up the installation dramatically.
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