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