Well, I'm thinking prolly not since your current boot Cd ain't bootin' either, but it's worth a shot right?



-zsejk, who will email them promptly (i.e. when Windows has decided to grant the request to start up... which could be a while )

Good luck though I don't think it will work unless the CD is burned just right.

If it doesn't try booting with the windows xp disk and use it to make an ntfs partion but nothing else on your first drive. Have the win2k disk in the second cd drive and try copying win2k boot files to your hard drive. That may not work to boot right away becuase it won't create the mbr but if it doesn't you can Slackware boot to install lilo and use lilo in the boot sector to boot that drive to basic win2k. If you have it set up so that the cd is accesible you should be able to go to it then and run setup. Kind of convoluted but should be a way to do this without a floppy.

hi,

i just checked my mail and recieved your first 2 mails for floppy one
but there seems to be one missing, you said in total there are 6 files for floppy one, i just revieved 5.
i replied to your e-mail saying which 5 files i have recieved.

thank again

Hey,

I finally emailed them. If it doesn't work, AhYup's idea actually sounds quite doable. Well, it *sounds* doable, but knowing Windows it might still be a bitch to execute.

And however *did* you end up without a floppy drive??



-zsejk

well it didn't work

laptop came without floppy

i managed i get the floppy working on the other machine ( the broken one) and as i said i managed to install slack on it.

but copying the files on a floppy didn't work. that's why they have those .exe files to make the bootable floppy's. the prob is i got floppy working on other machine with slackware on it, so i can not execute those exe files to make the bootable floppy's. i got windows bual boot with slack on laptop but then again i don't have floppy on laptop

In slackware insert a floppy and try, (say floppy file is named floppy_image_file):

dd if=floppy_image_file of=/dev/fd0 bs=36b conv=sync

[edit]
forget it, I thought you want make slackware boot floppy from floppy image files...

You can always copy rawrite.exe on a vfat floppy, then boot on a PC with a dos boot floppy, then instert the floppy with rawrite.exe in it, load and follow rawrite instructions.

no no slackware boot floppy's are useless you can put in CD2 of slack and it will do the same thing as bootable floppy's. that's not what i needed.


thanks anyway for attempting to help

So let me get this straight: your problem deals solely with your laptop, which you want to have dual-booting Slackware 10.0 and Windows 2000. Right now you have LILO installed on your MBR, booting into either Slackware 10.0 or Windows XP (both succesfully?). However, you want Windows 2000 instead of Windows XP, and you want to install 2000 over the XP partition and then re-install LILO to boot into either Slackware 10.0 or Windows 2000. However, you don't have a floppy drive to install Windows 2000 and your CD ain't booting.

So... in essence... you're screwed.



How about going into the Win partition you have now and starting the Win2000 installation from there (is there maybe a autorun.exe file on the Win2000 CD?). Sometimes the auto-reboot that the installation program does *will* pick up the CD even if the BIOS won't.

-zsejk, definitely not a pro, but so desperate to get you up and running

[EDIT: how about..... wait... aaargh! it's so confusing! there's no way for you to install Win2000 even if you *didn't* want to keep the FAT partition? like don't you have some kind of rescue disk that came with your laptop and that will restore it to it's original setting? maybe you can use slack to upload your FAT files to somewhere (school server?) and then just restore the original OS on your laptop, then install Win2000, then Slack?]

I think his laptop is fine. He wants windows 2k on his other machine.

As I recall you said you have a fat23 partition someplace and the floppy works then you can do it.

Copy setup files from slack to a win32 partition. If you don't have one use fdisk or cfdisk in slack to make one. Boot up with your Winxp disk. Run the exe files from the prompt. If it turns out that they need to run in windows then screw it, install xp again, make the win 2000 boot disks. Test them before you do anything and try setup. IF setup crashes becuase of the XP problem then wipe the xp partition and obliterate the mbr as was explained to you before. Then boot up with the floppies.

I reccomend that you do this on brand new floppies are you are likely to run into a headache if one won't work.

Now that I think about it if you have the floppy working I don't think you even need the files. I think win2k has a floppy boot making program on the cd. You can boot with xp and then use that disk in your second cd drive (I think you said you had two) too make the floppies.

True, true. But if he has a computer with a floppy drive and a CD drive that both work *and* that can boot into any kind of WIndows partition, there really is no problem. So, marlor, if you would, please specify *exactly* what you have on what computer. So please list what's on your desktop (what OSes, what media drives, what working partitions, etc.) and do the same for your laptop. Please make sure to be very clear about what computer does or does not have a floppy drive, and which one does or does not boot a Windows 2000 CD, and which one does or does not need to have a dual-boot with Slackware.

-zsejk

ok let me explain,

my laptop is fine, running winXP (*) and slackware, but the problem is it doesn't have a floppy drive so i cannot boot winXP and create the bootable floppy's with the .exe so i can boot win2000 on my other machine.
(*) it's winXP which came with the laptop so i can't install/run it on any other machine

the other machine (which i want to get win2000 working on) has now slackware on it and has a floppy drive. but the problem is i can not execute those .exe files with slackware which make the bootable floppy's for the win2000 boot.


*EDIT*
so basically i don't have a windows CD which i can boot, so i somehow have to manage to get the floppy's working over slackware or i have to find an .iso image (which i can burn on cd) which boots win2000

Are the .exes just self-extracting zips? Or a split-zip? Or a whole program that prompts to format, insert, etc?
And can you network the 2 boxes together?

Wait. what about: from your slack desktopper download the image for a win98 floppy. dd to floppy.
boot with it on the w2k target machine and insert the w2k CD. cd to the i386 dir and type setup. or if you prefer copy the files to a FAT and run them from there. Seems i used to do it this way...

those are .exe files which ask you to insert a floppy so it will not work with slack on the desktop machine as it cannot execute it.

and when i try it on laptop (when booted with XP) it says, "no floppy drive found" because of the simple reason that there is none on the laptop. well i still tryed hoping maybe that it would ask to write it on a cd or usb but it specifically looks for a floppy drive straight on.

I can probably arrange for an ISO image. Let me know if there's somewhere I can upload it to that has enough space for it (I'm thinking it should be about 600MB).

-zsejk

aiaiai 600M

i only have a ftp from my internet provider and that's 50M and almost full. but instead of uploading it somewhere would it be possible that you set up an ftp server and share the file? will take less time then you first uploading it somewhere and then me downloading?

well i would set up the ftp server for you to upload it to if i could but i am quite new to linux and just getting the hang of it how things work. next step will be learning to set up things like ftp, samba, apache....

or you got any other idea's?


thanks ...