Forc5,
Went and dug thru the link you sent. Found a couple of possible
choices. Tried both. No soap! This old turkey just wants to be a real
old butt! Fine.
So, I sits and thinks. I converted it to using a pata CDROM back in the
days when scsi was tough to boot on a CD. Well, decided to go back a try
bootable scsi 1 more time.............. :)
Success!!!! The CD booted right up and XPproSP2 is about 12 minutes from
being complete!! And this after a probably unnecessary 2d full
format! This last old soldier will now run XP Pro for its' remaining
days! Slowly perhaps (it is a 200MHz Pentium Pro/256), but I expect this
old dinosaur to be very reliable. It is so past any "infant mortality" issues.
Collective, thank you for your suggestions. I will be re-formatting
floppies for the rest of the afternoon now! My home is now 100% XPpro for
my clients; finally!
Best,
Duncan
At 15:22 01/13/2009 -0700, you wrote:
basically if you have a floppy boot disk that loads cd rom drivers migrate
to the rom and run setup manually.
http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
may have what ya need. I'm sure I have one laying around here somewhere.
fp
At 11:37 AM 1/13/2009, Christopher Fisk Poked the stick with:
>On Tue, 13 Jan 2009, DHSinclair wrote:
>
>>I have a really old machine. Its' bios is so stupid that it does not
offer booting from a CDROM! It offers only 2 option:
>>HardDrive then Diskette
>>Diskette then HardDrive
>>
>>I tried to upgrade its' W2Kpro system to XP. This failed when the boot
disk ran out of space! Well, duh! Hard drive was scsi on a 2940UW.
>>OK, replaced the drive with a 9.13GB that is formatted ntfs w/1 primary
partition.
>>
>>I've studied for 2 days and now have an XP boot diskette
constructed. It points to the proper disk (scsi id=0), but then fails
because the drive is blank at the moment.
>>
>>It will NOT point post-bios to the pata CDROM to do the SETUP.EXE and
install XP. I suspect the boot.ini file is the problem, but I do not
know how to correct it to point at the CDROM.
>>
>>Can anyone suggest a workaround or repair to my boot.ini file? The
current boot.ini reads:
>>
>>[boot loader]
>>timeout=30
>>Default= multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows
>>[operating systems]
>>multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\windows="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional"
>>
>>Thankyou,
>>Duncan
>
>
>Have you tried this:
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310994
>
>I think it ends up making 3 floppies, but gets you to the startup point.
>
>
>
>Christopher Fisk
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