installing win2k on a 4 GB drive

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First of Can I install the OS on the drive? I am building
a harddrive farm and want to this little ole drive as the
OS drive only, and have the other drives for data storage.

According the the system requirments I can do it, but you
know how those are..... I keeping getting this error when
i am installing (clean) from the 4 boot floppies...."File
\halacpi.dll could not be loaded. the error code is 7"
After I insert the second floppy. I can't seem to get the
system to load from the CD. I have change the BIOS setting
to "boot from CD" but no good. Any sugestions? Please
reply via email.
 
First of Can I install the OS on the drive? I am building
a harddrive farm and want to this little ole drive as the
OS drive only, and have the other drives for data storage.
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I did that on a 2 gig hard drive recently.

I was about to give away my Celeron 300a system with 32 megs.

I added 256 k memory bought for 50 dollars and installed
win 2k. The system works fine and I plan to use it for dialup
internet access at a weekend retreat.

Farouk Dindar
 
IRNOTSLOW said:
First of Can I install the OS on the drive? I am building
a harddrive farm and want to this little ole drive as the
OS drive only, and have the other drives for data storage.

According the the system requirments I can do it, but you
know how those are..... I keeping getting this error when
i am installing (clean) from the 4 boot floppies...."File
\halacpi.dll could not be loaded. the error code is 7"
After I insert the second floppy. I can't seem to get the
system to load from the CD. I have change the BIOS setting
to "boot from CD" but no good. Any sugestions? Please
reply via email.
Click to expand...

Problems loading the installer from floppy are typically due to a bum
floppy. There is no error checking performed when the boot floppies are
created. When you format the floppies prior to placing the images on them,
if you get even so much as 1 bad spot on the floppy, look for another
floppy. Armed with a handful of 100% good floppies prior to making them boot
floppies does a world of wonders for the installation process.

As for the boot from CD issue, on the older systems, sometimes you have to
disable the option to boot from floppy just for force the issue in addition
to placing the CD drive as first in the boot order.
 
A 4gb Win2K o/s drive is I would suggest a tad small. MSVP's tend to rec.
10gb.
Personally my Win2K, with only AV app loaded on o/s drive, is 3.25gb
David
 
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Yes, easily.

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4GB is plenty, providing you do the following:
Move the IE files to another physical drive.
Move the OE files to another drive
Copy the "Program Files" folder to another drive.
In the Registry change "ProgramFilesDir" to point to the other drive.

I've got one graphics workstation with 1500 fonts installed and it only
takes up 2.3GB.
 
Yeah, you can install the W2K on a 4 GB drive, but that will leave not much overhead for anything else.
 
I obviously forgot to mention that you can only do this with the install CD

----- Mr. Obvious wrote: ----

The local experts may have overlooked the obvious. This one sounds like W2k ACPI HAL does not support your PC's bios. Follow this link on how to specify a HAL during W2K installation
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;21625
I'd select the standard PC and give it a shot. Had the same problem with a old P2 machine years ago
 
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