2003 Boot disks?

[Mr.Guvernment 0]

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 0]

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.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.server.general and news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsoft.public.windows.server.setup.

[Mr.Guvernment 0]

thxn m8- shall check it out!

[adamvjackson 0]

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

[duhmez 0]

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 0]

^^^

 

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)