How to install Win 2000Pro Without CD.

Do you have a floppy drive?

If so, goto bootdisk.com, and create yourself a win98 boot disk.

Boot to that floppy on one of those pc's... Fdisk the drive if you have to, Format that drive, then type SYS C: to transfer to system files to that hard drive.

Slave that hard drive to a machine with a cd-rom. Copy the i386 folder from the cd to the hard drive.

Move the drive back to the non-cd machine... boot it up, should come up with the c:\> prompt

c:\>

Type cd\i386

c:\i386>

Type winnt

c:\i386>winnt

It will now go through the install of 2k

I think you need to get a Win2K Pro disk with a valid installation key. I just like to clear this up, OS inststallation is diferent from a client. OS is either win98, win2k or xp needed to be installed while the Client Acces License (CAL) is diferrent and configured in the server.. For the Win2k Advance Server has a default 5 CAL.

The first person who answered suggested that you will copy the I386 of your server .. so if you do that it will not be win2k Pro, but it will be Win2k advance server.

Set up your server for RIS (remote Installation Service). You need to have a separate partition on your servers hard drive to copy the W2K pro files to. You can create RIS boot disks for your client systems if they don't support PXE booting (provided the NICs you are using are supported).