Re: Windows Server 2003 Installation

From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_Nospam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 11/21/04 

Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 12:26:06 -0700

This link may help.

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/WindowsServ/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/Default.asp?url=/resources/documentation/windowsserv/2003/standard/proddocs/en-us/start_setup.asp 

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"Pete" wrote:
| Hello,
|
| Thank you very very much for the reply. I don't have a WIN98 startup 
floppy
| or the original Win98 CD.  I do have XP Pro Installed on a system and a XP
| Home OS CD that is bootable. Is there someway to use XP to create a 
bootable
| CD that will enable me to load Server 2003. I do NOT  have a floppy drive 
in
| the system. I was up most of the night trying to make this CD bootable, 
but
| was unsuccessful.
|
| Re: Your instructions
| How do I create a bootable FAT32? Can it be done with XP? How do you start
| the install from the i386 folder with winnt.exe?
|
| And YOU ARE CORRECT. The MSDN OS are not bootable. When you attempt to 
boot
| from CD I get error: NTLDR is missing. I found the NTLDR file on the sytem
| disk and copied it onto the root directory of the CD but it still did not
| work. I cand load XP first and then install server 2003 from within XP, 
but
| do not want to do this. When I do it this way I can't delete the partition
| with the XP OS because the setup needs the drivers in this partition to
| install Server 2003. Leaving XP in this partition can lead to conflicts 
down
| the road that I want to avoid.  I AM IN NO WAY wanting anyone to waste 
their
| time giving information on how to load Server 2003 from within XP. I want 
to
| do a clean boot with no existing OS on the hard drive. Someone provided me
| with the MS link to creating a boot floopy, which does NOT help me out. I 
do
| not have Server 2003 running on a system and I do not have the Windows XP
| Setup Boot disks for XP Pro necessary to following this procedure. These 
were
| the only set of instructions I could find that gave any information, but 
they
| were no good. I tried mutliple variations of these instructions to try to
| make something work, but with ZERO success.
|
| I find this a bit ridiculous. I've got the entire set of MSCA manuals and 
a
| $2,900 MSDN subscription, and both provide ABSOLUTELY NO INFORMATION on 
how
| to load this OS on a clean system.
|
| Thanks again for any assistance you can provide.
|
| Pete
|
|
|
|
| "m.marien" wrote:
|
| >
| > "Pete" <Pete@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
| > news:0C167287-502D-4264-B17C-1926C8A34459@microsoft.com...
| > >I cannot get Server 2003 to install on computer with no exisiting 
operating
| > > system. I have unsuccessfully tried to create a boot disk. I do not 
have
| > > access to a system with Server 2003 loaded to create a boot disk. It 
seems
| > > strange that the software provided (MSDN subscription) does not 
contain
| > > the
| > > files necessary to boot from CD drive on system with new harddrive and 
no
| > > OS.
| > >
| > > Please help.
| > >
| > > Thank you,
| > > Pete
| >
| > I could never figure that out either. When I first got my subscription, 
the
| > disks were all bootable. Since then they changed to archive disks that 
don't
| > boot. You would think for testing purposes you would be doing lots of 
clean
| > installs so a bootable CD was a must.
| >
| > My favorite method is to create a bootable FAT32 partition and copy over 
the
| > i386 directory from the CD. You can create the bootable FAT32 with a 
WIN98
| > startup floppy or the orginal Win98 CD. Start the install from the i386
| > folder with winnt.exe. When it asks, convert the partition to NTFS.
| >
| > The bonus is that you never have to insert the CD when you add windows
| > components as long as you don't change the location of the i386 folder.
| >
| > The downfall is that you still need a bootable something or other 
besides
| > the o/s CD to get started. It's also excruciating slow without 
smartdrive.
| >
| >
| >
| >

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