[Mr.Guvernment]

Hey all

Wondering if 2003 has boot disks?

i have an older laptop that does not boot from cdrom only fdd or HD - so curious if 2003 has boot disks that i could download form somwhere or get form the 2003 cd?

i am going to use this old paper weight for a DNS cache server.

[adamvjackson]

No, it does not, although I've read that you can copy NTLDR and NTDETECT to a floppy to get a minimal boot disk.

Might want to read some of the postings at news://msnews.micros....server.general and news://msnews.micros...ws.server.setup.

[Mr.Guvernment]

thxn m8- shall check it out!

[adamvjackson]

No problem... There has been several posts in the newsgroups listed above about bootdisks, and I think there's a MSKB article, too.

[duhmez]

Boot to dos and run setup fropm there.


Win9x floppy, then run smartdrv, then

run \i386\winnt.exe
You wll also need a fat(32) partition on the disk when you install, but you can convert afterwards.

[Mr.Guvernment]

^^^

YEPEPRS -

i did not know u could run the setup from dos but yes

doing the boot froma 98 boot disk into dos - run smartdrv - then go to

i386/winnt runs the setup and everything goes fine! installing now! should be done in about 40 mins (is an old laptop)