Trying Installing Windows 2000 on new hard drive wants service pk

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After I put the first 4 floppy boot disks and format the hard drive, then it
asks me to put the windows service pack 1 CD instead of the Windows 2000 CD
to install the OS... Why is it asking for this never has before and how can I
get rid of this? Thanks!
 
Probably the reason is that the 4 floppy disks you used were created from a
W2K CD that was integrated with SP1. If your machine supports boot from CD,
you don't need to use the floopys. just boot off your CD
 
SteelerDude! said:
After I put the first 4 floppy boot disks and format the hard drive, then it
asks me to put the windows service pack 1 CD instead of the Windows 2000 CD
to install the OS... Why is it asking for this never has before and how can I
get rid of this? Thanks!
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How about booting the machine with your Win2000 CD
instead of using floppy disks? Much, much faster and
no problem with service packs!
 
Your CD-Rom is probably a slip streamed install. Try replacing the file
txtsetup.sif on the first floppy with the file (same name) found in \i386
directory on your CD-Rom.

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:
| After I put the first 4 floppy boot disks and format the hard drive, then
it
| asks me to put the windows service pack 1 CD instead of the Windows 2000
CD
| to install the OS... Why is it asking for this never has before and how
can I
| get rid of this? Thanks!
 
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