network install on new HDD

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Venumadhav Kanaparthy

Hi,
I have a new system with empty harddisk. My system is
connected to Windows 2000 server in LAN. Windows 2000
Professional setup backup is somewhere in the network.
What should I do to install Windows 2000 Pro on my new
system?
 
Venumadhav Kanaparthy said:
Hi,
I have a new system with empty harddisk. My system is
connected to Windows 2000 server in LAN. Windows 2000
Professional setup backup is somewhere in the network.
What should I do to install Windows 2000 Pro on my new
system?
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Install W2K by booting from a W2K CD on empty system if a CD-Rom is
available.

If what you are trying to do is boot the system and provide network
connectivity to perform a network installation, you'll need a network boot
diskette which is unique to your NIC model, contacts a DHCP server for a
tcp/ip address, maps a drive locally and runs winnt.exe from a network
share.

You can also partition and format the empty drive, slave it to another
system, copy the I386 directory from a W2K CD, return drive, boot to Dos and
execute winnt.exe in the I386 directory.

Your options would not be limited to these methods. PXE boots + RIS,
syspreped ghost images, etc...
 
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