Installing W2k

Use Winnt to install 2k on a Win 3.x or Dos box (or any 16 bit OS)

Use Winnt32 for Win9x, NT4, NT3.51 or 2k.

I guess your CDRom is not bootable? If it is, you can boot straight from the 2k CD.

Another option you may want to consider is making the 2k boot floppies and using them.

The executable is in the bootdisk folder on the CD and the command it makeboot a: (or b: if you have one and prefer to use that floppy).

Good luck! Hope this helps....

Insert the Windows 2000 Professional CD into the CD-ROM drive and reboot your machine so that it boots from the CD. Setup begins by checking the machine configuration and loading files.
When the Welcome to Setup screen appears, press Enter.

Follow the onscreen instructions to delete all existing disk partitions. The exact steps differ based on the number and type of partitions already on the computer. Continue to delete partitions until all disk space is labeled as Unpartitioned space. Then press C to create a new partition in the unpartitioned space. Unless you have specific reasons for doing otherwise, use all available disk space for this partition.
After the New (Unformatted) partition is created, press Enter.
Select Format the partition using the NTFS file system and press Enter. The drive will be formatted. This may take some time depending upon the size of the disk and the speed of the computer.

In the Name box, type Teresa Atkinson. In the Organization box, typeReskit, and click Next.
Type the Product Key (found on the back of your Windows 2000 CD case) in the text boxes provided. Click Next.

Best Practice: To facilitate the step-by-step guides, the Administrator password is left blank?that is, thereis no password. However, this is bad security practice. When installing a workstation in a production environment, a password should always be set.

Select No, this computer is not on a network, and click OK . (We connect this workstation to the domain in the next procedure.)
Setup installs and configures Windows 2000 components and performs these final tasks:

Installs Start menu items
Registers components
Saves settings
Removes any temporary files.

After the computer reboots, the Network Identification Wizard starts. Click Next.
Select the default user logged on (Teresa Atkinson in this guide), click Next, and then click Finish.