fflan513
February 20th, 2003, 05:22 PM
I have installed Win Xp from my hard drive many times and find that this works faster than install from CD. I utilize two Hard drives with the a copy of WIN XP on the slave drive and just boot to a DOS prompt and access the folder I386 containing WINNT.EXE and run the XP setup from there; works just fine.
I am intrigued at the idea of mapping a drive to the I386 folder on my slave and installing XP from there BUT I am not sure how to access the mapped drive (Z) from DOS (I386 folder); I thought it would be like accessing any "real" drive but not so.
Somebody tell me what I'm missing please.
I want to be able to just do the following:
A:>Z:
Z:WINNT.EXE [enter]
Somebody tell me what I'm missing please. Do I need a different type boot disk? What?
:confused:
I am intrigued at the idea of mapping a drive to the I386 folder on my slave and installing XP from there BUT I am not sure how to access the mapped drive (Z) from DOS (I386 folder); I thought it would be like accessing any "real" drive but not so.
Somebody tell me what I'm missing please.
I want to be able to just do the following:
A:>Z:
Z:WINNT.EXE [enter]
Somebody tell me what I'm missing please. Do I need a different type boot disk? What?
:confused: