Re: I386, no reply yet.
From: Steven L Umbach (n9rou_at_n0-spam-for-me-comcast.net)
Date: 07/16/04
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Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 18:28:35 GMT
Hi Amit.
I see you are still having a problem with this, so I created some boot floppies to
take a look to see if I could remeber what I did.
On the first boot floppy look for a file named textsetup.sif and open it with notepad
and use edit to search for "setupdata" and read the description there of how to add a
line for the file to use the hard drive instead of cd for source path as shown below
from a paste from mine with the <<<<< pointing to the specific line. Note that if you
are installing from partition 2 of a hard drive the line would be
\device\harddisk0\partition2. If you are installing from a second drive the line
would include \device\harddisk1\partition1 if using the first partition of the second
drive. Good luck. --- Steve
[SetupData]
;
; SetupSourceDevice is optional and specifies the nt device path
; of the device to be used as the setup source. This overrides
; the CD-ROM or winnt local source.
;
;SetupSourceDevice = \device\harddisk0\partition1
;
; SetupSourcePath specifies the path relative to the source device
; where the setup source tree is to be found.
; All media descriptors are relative to this.
;
SetupSourceDevice = \device\harddisk0\partition2 <<<<<<<< add this line..
SetupSourcePath = "\"
MajorVersion = 5
MinorVersion = 0
DefaultPath=\WINNT
"Amit" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> No one could reply to this issue i posted 2 days back. I
> would like to know from some MVP, MCSE if or not this is
> officially possible, so i can stop searching for boot
> utilities over google.
>
> I wanted to install win2k pro on 40 machines which dont
> have a CD rom. All have I386 folder in D:\
> I want to have a clean install. The clean install on
> executing winnt.exe from I386 isnt a clean install. I want
> to format C: with NTFS. So i wont be able to use 98's disk
> as it wont read I386 on D: because its NTFS as well.
> So i made 2k pro 4 boot disks to begin the installation,
> BUT how do
> i direct the installation FROM D:? It looks for CD instead.
> Steve L Umbach told me he modified some .inf file in one
> of the boot disks. I found only one inf file in 4 disks
> and i dont see anything that can be changed there. What
> should i change there?
> Purpose is to install 2k pro from D:\I386 and format C:
> with NTFS and without using CD ROM.
> Thanks.
>
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