install vista from boot disk

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I am trying to install windows vista rtm from a dos boot disk. Is this
possible and if so how do I start the install. The laptop I have does not
have a cd/dvd drive so I am booting dos from an SD card and have the vista
install files copied to a 3 gb fat32 partition at the end of my drive.

thanks,
Joe
 
Vista won't install on a FAT32 partition, only a
partition formatted NTFS. Therefore, one cannot
install Vista booting from DOS. You'll need to
install a working DVD drive.

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| I am trying to install windows vista rtm from a dos boot disk. Is this
| possible and if so how do I start the install. The laptop I have does not
| have a cd/dvd drive so I am booting dos from an SD card and have the vista
| install files copied to a 3 gb fat32 partition at the end of my drive.
|
| thanks,
| Joe
 
Thanks for your answer. I apologize if my question was not clear. I don't
want to install Vista on a FAT32 partition. I want to install Vista on an
NTFS partition. I just created a FAT32 partition so that I could get to the
Vista setup files from the DOS boot disk. I want to be able to launch Vista
setup, partition and format my drive as NTFS, and then install Vista on that
new partition. I have done it this way many times with XP. In XP there was
an executable called winnt.exe that allowed me to launch the XP setup from
the DOS command line. Is there no equivalent in Vista?

Thanks!
Joe
 
joe said:
Thanks for your answer. I apologize if my question was not clear. I
don't
want to install Vista on a FAT32 partition. I want to install Vista on an
NTFS partition. I just created a FAT32 partition so that I could get to
the
Vista setup files from the DOS boot disk. I want to be able to launch
Vista setup, partition and format my drive as NTFS, and then install Vista
on that
new partition. I have done it this way many times with XP. In XP there
was an executable called winnt.exe that allowed me to launch the XP setup
from
the DOS command line. Is there no equivalent in Vista?

Thanks!
Joe
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maybe, maybe not. MS changed the way the boot process works. Nothing
equvalent to GRUB but different, the NT through XP method do not work the
same way.

BTW the Vista disk footprint is about 11 GB.
 
Hi,

The old way of doing it was where (for example) you'd put the o/s files
on a network drive, you'd then boot the target workstation into DOS with
real mode network drivers and a local FAT partition, you'd then run
WINNT from the UNC share. WINNT would copy the setup files to the FAT
partition then launch Windows setup from the local machine, convert and
extend the FAT partition, install drivers, complete install.

Are people saying this is no longer possible with Vista?
 
This is how I've done it in the past as well. If anyone has an answer as to
how to accomplish something similar in Vista it would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

JG
 
This is how I've done it in the past as well. If anyone has an answer as to
how to accomplish something similar in Vista it would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

JG
 
Hello John,
Sorry not an option any longer. Setup is a win32 app ( or a Win64 app for
the x64 edtions)
There isn't a setup option for running in MS-DOS any longer.
You would need to boot to a WinPE disk to run setup so that you are in a
Win32\Win64 environment
Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

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Hello Gerry,
That is correct, this is no longer an option. You would need to boot into
a WinPE disk to run setup across the network
Setup.exe only exists as Win32\Win64 application which will not work from
MS-DOS
The old way of doing it was where (for example) you'd put the o/s files
on a network drive, you'd then boot the target workstation into DOS with
real mode network drivers and a local FAT partition, you'd then run
WINNT from the UNC share. WINNT would copy the setup files to the FAT
partition then launch Windows setup from the local machine, convert and
extend the FAT partition, install drivers, complete install.
Click to expand...
Thanks,
Darrell Gorter[MSFT]

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights
 
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