How do I install All Win2k files on install?

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Hi all, I simply want to install Win2k on to a PC and don't want to be asked for the CD ever again, so I need all the files install on the HD at first install....possible?

Kind Regards

Andy

 

[TSSTechie]

Hi

I have done this a few times with WIN95. All I did was copy the contents of the CD onto the hard drive via XCOPY in DOS and installed it from there. The installation remembers where it was installed from and so, when it would usually need the disk, it will look to wherever you placed it on the HDD where all of the files are stored anyway so it won't bother you for a disk. It will just get on with the install itself.

Hope this helps

May The Force Be With You

 

[Seaspray0]

win 2k does a much better job of not asking for the CD, by about 90%. Almost all the rest is located in the I386 folder on the CD. You can do an install with just that directory, and is what most will copy to the hard drive instead of the whole CD. Alot of the computer maufacturers will just use the I386 folder. To install from it, you run WINNT.EXE.