"Bruce Best (CRO)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for all your suggestions. > > To make things more difficult, of course, we cannot now install > Win98 over Win2k, because the Win98 installer will not run from > within NT, i.e., it too would require a boot disk or bootable CD. It > seems that Win2k won't easily budge.
Probably intentional. > The best recommendation I have seen is to install DOS first, then > install Win2k (on a FAT partition). The Win2k boot loader will then > provide DOS as an option on boot. However, it doesn't seem possible > to do this backwards, i.e., install DOS after Win2k. I don't think this particular use case was considered by Microsoft :-) > > I think the best solution now is either pulling the hard drive and > installing it temporarily in a desktop as Oivvio suggested (I actually > happen to have one of those notebook HD adaptors), if my brother-in-law > doesn't mind me pulling apart his brand-new notebook :). "Trust me, I know what I'm doing" -- famous last words! > > Other than that, I was considering buying an external CDRW in any > case. According to Sony, USB CD drives are NOT bootable, but > PC-Card drives are, so should probably look at the latter. IMHO, a CD[RW] is a must. You can't always get s/w from the net, some games need CDs in the drive etc. Good luck! -- Gustaf Erikson -+- +46 70 444 0726 -+- [http://stureby.net/]
