Installing Win2K from an MSDN Subscriptions DVD

[Eris23007]

I have an MSDN Subscription DVD and wanted to install Windows 2000 from it onto a fresh, unused hard drive.

The first thing I tried was copying the Windows 2000 directory off the DVD to a CD, then making floppies and booting from those. After a while spent trying to find 4 working floppies and get everything going right, I finally got it to load all the way only to get a "can't find EULA.TXT" error. I don't know if that's verbatim correct, but it's close.

Anyway, I was thinking about trying the floppies with the DVD itself (since he has a DVD-ROM I can use), but if that doesn't work, any suggestions?

Why would MS include all these platforms if they can't install? Or is it a ploy so that you have to use upgrade instead of straight install...?

Something else I was thinking about was to make a bootable CD with all that stuff on there (I'm pretty sure his BIOS can handle booting from CD) but I've never burned a bootable CD before so I would probably have to do some research about what exactly needs to be done to make such a thing...

Anyway, any advice?

Another question - any good links to info about how to beat product activation? I have XP Pro on another MSDN disc and I would really like to use it, but I really don't want my OS sending all that info to MS, so unless I can figure out how to beat PA I'm sticking with 2K...

Thanks,

Jake

 

[bsobel]

Jake, the DVD should be bootable. The boot menu will have you choose which OS on the disk to 'run'.

As for "Another question - any good links to info about how to beat product activation". Questions like that are likely to get you banned here. If you don't want to follow the licensing requirements, you have no legal right to run the OS. Deal with it.

Bill

 

[Eris23007]

Wow that hadn't even occurred to me - SWEET. Thanks a ton for the advice!

As for the PA thing, well then I guess I'm sticking with 2K. And dealing with it.

(by the way no need to get snippy)

If I get banned for that... well then it's too authoritarian for my tastes anyway. Viva free speech.

If not, then no big deal. Thanks again for the help, though!

Jake

 

[bsobel]

Oops, forgot the smily face in that sentence to indicate I was only being half-snippy (edited other post to add)

Bill

 

[Eris23007]

No worries. Thanks again for the booting to DVD suggestion... I'll probably get around to trying it tomorrow night. Hopefully it will work! I haven't seen any mention of bootability on it, though... do you know for sure it's bootable?

 

[bsobel]

Originally posted by: Eris23007
No worries. Thanks again for the booting to DVD suggestion... I'll probably get around to trying it tomorrow night. Hopefully it will work! I haven't seen any mention of bootability on it, though... do you know for sure it's bootable?

Almost positive, I haven't tried it lately, but they definately used to. If I'm wrong, another thing you can do (since you have an MSDN subscription) is download the CD .iso's from the MS site. Those burn to normal cd's they definately boot.
Bill

 

[Eris23007]

OK, if it doesn't work, I'll totally do that. In fact, I may do that anyway just to have 'em on CD for 'puters without a DVD-ROM.

Thanks again

Jake