Re: Missing C:\I386 Goes Unnoticed!?

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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 16:54:27 -0000

Hi

When Windows 2000 is installed, it installs most of the things it will need,
including the driver files (in %systemroot%\Driver Cache).

So, while Windows NT almost used to ask for its i386 directory if you waved
your mouse pointer in the wrong area of the screen, Windows 2000 is fine.
It'll only want i386 if you add or remove Windows components.

Personally, I don't copy i386 to the hard disks of workstations, but I
always do for servers.

In any case, Windows NT never copied the i386 directory to the hard disk
itself. It was just common practice for those installing the OS to do so.
Similarly, Windows 2000 doesn't copy the source tree to the disk (and
neither does Windows XP or Windows Server 2003).

Hope this helps

Oli

"Ben-Zion Joselson" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1428501c3f9f8$37c48ee0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> Last month I successfully installed Windows 2000
> Professional SP4 slipstreamed, with additional $oem$
> structure (located alongside I386 in the CD root) with
> added drivers and selected files and folders, using a
> bootable CD that I burned according to well-established
> guidelines published by Oli Restorick and by Steven Bink.
>
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