Appendix B -- Creating Setup Disks

Unless your computer supports booting from a CD-ROM drive, you must have the four Microsoft Windows 2000 Server or Windows 2000 Advanced Server Setup disks to complete the installation of Windows 2000 Server or Advanced Server. To create these Setup disks, complete the following procedure.

To create Windows 2000 Server or Windows 2000 Advanced Server Setup disks, you would do the following:

1. Label the four blank formatted 1.44 MB disks with the appropriate product name, as follows:

• Windows 2000 Server Setup Disk 1 or Windows 2000 Advanced Server Setup Disk 1
• Windows 2000 Server Setup Disk 2 or Windows 2000 Advanced Server Setup Disk 2
• Windows 2000 Server Setup Disk 3 or Windows 2000 Advanced Server Setup Disk 3
• Windows 2000 Server Setup Disk 4 or Windows 2000 Advanced Server Setup Disk 4

2. Insert the Microsoft Windows 2000 Server or Windows 2000 Advanced Server CD-ROM into the CD-ROM drive.
3. If the Windows 2000 CD-ROM dialog box appears prompting you to upgrade to Windows NT, click No.
4. Start a command prompt.
5. At the command prompt, change to your CD-ROM drive. For example, if your CD-ROM drive letter is E, type e: and press Enter.
6. At the command prompt, change to the Bootdisk folder by typing cd bootdisk and pressing Enter.
7. With Bootdisk as the active folder, type makeboot a: (where a: is the floppy disk drive) and then press Enter.

Windows 2000 displays a message indicating that this script creates the four Windows 2000 Setup disks for installing from a CD-ROM. It also indicates that four blank formatted floppy disks are required.

8. Press any key to continue.

Windows 2000 displays a message prompting you to insert the disk labeled Disk 1.

9. Insert the blank formatted disk labeled Windows 2000 Server Setup Disk 1, or Windows 2000 Advanced Server Setup Disk 1, in drive A and then press any key to continue.

After Windows 2000 creates the disk image, it displays a message prompting you to insert the disk labeled Disk 2.

10. Remove Disk 1 and insert the blank formatted disk labeled Windows 2000 Server Setup Disk 2, or Windows 2000 Advanced Server Setup Disk 2, in drive A and then press any key to continue.

After Windows 2000 creates the disk image, it displays a message prompting you to insert the disk labeled Disk 3.

11. Remove Disk 2 and insert the blank formatted disk labeled Windows 2000 Server Setup Disk 3, or Windows 2000 Advanced Server Setup Disk 3, in drive A and then press any key to continue.

After Windows 2000 creates the disk image, it displays a message prompting you to insert the disk labeled Disk 4.

12. Remove Disk 3 and insert the blank formatted disk labeled Windows 2000 Server Setup Disk 4, or Windows 2000 Advanced Server Setup Disk 4, in drive A and then press any key to continue.

After Windows 2000 creates the disk image, it displays a message indicating that the imaging process is done.

13. At the command prompt, type exit and then press Enter.
14. Remove the disk from drive A and the CD-ROM from the CD-ROM drive.