polycon

Greetings all, Before I start, I would just like to say that I expected this topic to have come up before (somewhere!) and that I did patiently trawl through your forums before I bit the bullet and decided to post myself... My problem is simple enough... I can't install the Windows2000 professional OS on a system without a floppy disk drive. I have the WINNT.SIF file in the correct location, the uppermost parameters are as follows:- ;SetupMgrTag [Data] AutoPartition=1 MsDosInitiated="no" UnattendedInstall="Yes" AutomaticUpdates=yes [unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=YES OemPreinstall=YES TargetPath=\WINDOWS Repartition=Yes WaitForReboot="No" UnattendSwitch="yes" KeyboardLayout="United Kingdom" I have created many CD-ROMs for unattended XP installations, so none of this stuff is "new" to me... The CD will run through the text part no worries, then stop at the GUI part where the license code needs to be entered (I guess this is the part its trying to find the answer file on the floppy...) I've read elsewhere that an inf file can be edited with a few numbers (270 or something like that) to supress this prompt, but have been unable to get this to work. Also, I have read that a batch file can be setup to run the winnt32 command with the appropriate switches, but alas, I've also been unable to get this to play ball.. RIS or network installs are just not an option for me... Please go easy on my first post , and if you are still reading this TYVM!!!