How do I install windows 2000 from a zip 250 disk?

[Icy EyeG]

Hi all!

Does anyone know how to install windows 2000 from a 250 zip disk?

I made a "light" version of windows 2000 using nlite, so that it would fit a zip 250 Mb disk.

I copied the files to a zip disk and tried to boot.... but it doesn't work.

Moreover, unlike the floppy disks, the zip disks don't have a "create boot disk" option on the format menu, on windows Xp....

[jaclaz]

You seem not wanting to "install" Win2k from ZIP, but rather to "boot" from it.

This might prove to be tricky.

The main steps involved are however:

1) Make the Zip disk "bootable" in DOS (possibly 7.1, i.e Win98 one), it MUST be FAT16 or FAT32

2) Verify that you can boot DOS from it

3) add to it the win2K files

If you are interested in the procedure, just say so.

You will need a couple of freeware progs and some (let's say quite some) time to do the needed procedures.

If on the other hand, you want to install win2k FROM the ZIP disk, you can have a look at this:

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=16713

I am assuming we are talking of a ATA/ATAPI ZIP disk drive, there is no simple/known way to boot Win2K from a USB device, though with a LOT of work and try and error it is possible.

jaclaz