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by natecasp

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I am trying to install Win2k Pro on a system that has a BIOS not capable of booting from CD-ROM. I have created the boot disks from the program on the CD however when I use them to try to install the OS the setup routine errors out. The error I get is "Setup can not find the end user license agreement." At that point the only option is to restart the system. I have searched and found the EULA.txt on the CD under the i386 directory however the setup program does not find it. I have tried installing the OS on a different system from the same CD that supports bootable CD-ROMs and it works fine. Does anybody know why it will not work with the boot disks created?

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by bdivine

Did you create the boot disks off of the PC you are trying to install on? As an alternative: Copy the i386 directory to a partion on the hard drive and specify that you do not want to create boot disks through the installation string.

by natecasp

No the boot disks were not created on the PC that the OS is being installed on. The PC I want to install the OS on is empty and the hard drive is not partitioned or formatted. I would like to format the entire drive as NTFS and therefore do not wantto copy anything to the hard drive prior to installation.

by briantruitt

Did you make your 4 boot disks from the makeboot.exe or the makebt32.exe? For a new install, with no OS, you use the makeboot.exe instead of the makebt32.exe. Normally, after the 4th disk does it's thing the cdrom takes over from there. Is setup trying to access the cdrom at all? Have you tried using a generic boot disk with cdrom drivers on and accessing the cdrom that way? Let me know.

by natecasp

I used the makeboot program and yes the setup routine does try to access the cdrom right before the EULA error comes up. I have tested the cdrom by booting from a normal boot disk and doing dirs. I actually typed the eula.txt on the cdrom like that.I have also tried to run the same procedure on another computer using the boot disks and the same error message came up. If you boot from the cdrom it works fine.

by dc1

Are you using a BETA CD? the previous two answers pretty much cover the possibilities unless the controller that your CD drive is on is not supported

by natecasp

I am using a standard IDE controller and like I said before. The install does work when booting from CD. The CD is not a beta and is actually a copy off the MSDN DVD. I have tried other Win2k Pro CDs also with the same error. This is a really wierd problem.

by kalan

What I would reccomend is what I have done, I boot the machine with a Win98 boot disk with CD-Rom drivers of course then hop over to the i386 directory on the CD and run winnt.exe that will start your setup and give you the option to format to the NTFS file system if you need/want to. I have done this with several machines and everything has worked out fine, best of luck to you.

by kalan

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