Hi, I have 2 pc's networked, one of them has 2000 pro loaded on it and a cd rom, my other one though only has a floppy and boots up in dos. Is there anyway to setup win2k from computer 1's cdrom using dos through the network. Any replies are appreciated.

If you have more questions, email me. No one ever said doing this on your own was going to be easy. But I learned it and now I can pass it on. Bob Installing Clients By Using Remote Installation This describes the steps that are required to successfully install Windows 2000 Professional on a network computer that contains a network adapter that is supported by the remote installation boot floppy disk: Restart your client from either the remote floppy disk or the Pre-Boot Execution Environment (PXE) boot CD-ROM. When you are prompted, press the F12 key to start the download of the Client Installation Wizard. At the Welcome screen, press ENTER. For the username, enter a username from the Windows 2000 computer, use your name and password. Enter the password and domain name, and then press ENTER to continue. After you receive a warning message that all data on the client hard disk is going to deleted, press ENTER to continue. After a computer account and a global unique identification (ID) for this workstation are displayed, press ENTER to begin Setup. Windows 2000 Setup starts. If you are prompted, type the product key (which is located on the back of the Windows 2000 Professional CD-ROM case), and then click Next.

I haven't done w2k only w9x. I assume you have a functioning network that you can read the CD-ROM from the DOS machine. Make a subdirectory on the DOS machine Hard Drive For Win2000, Copy the Win2000 files to it, run setup. This works for w9x and solves the problem of a lost network connection when the system reboots during setup. This assumes that the DOS machine has enough resources (disk space).

I have decided to load win98 or winME instead on the DOS machine. All i have is dos. No other programs on it. I have enough disk space but i just dont know the commands to copy the files from the other computers cd rom to the dos computer. Any ideas? Is there a program that I can download or just some commands i can type in?

Perhaps I misunderstood you posting. You said that you had the DOS and W2K machines networked. I assumed that you had file transfer running. If not you would have to setup a network client on the DOS machine. When the DOS machine has access to the W2K machine and the CD Drive is shared all you would have to do COPY the files on the install CD to a directory on the DOS machine. I don't use W2K so I don't know about permissions and login to the W2K machine on a WIN9x machine you would NET USE ????.