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Old November 12th, 2003, 09:08 AM
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Installing OS from i386 folder on HD
I want to install windows xp on this machine using the installation files from a I386 folder that I copied to C:\ just after fomatting, so that in the future when someone wants to add a service or new hardware that may require the Windows XP CD, the computer looks to the HD and doesn't prompt the user to go get the CD.

I am having problems getting the installation to start from this folder. any ideas?
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I think that worked. I just had to install the OS twice. Installed the first time because winnt32 can't be run out of DOS, and winnt doesn't have all of the same switches that winn32 has. So ran the upgrade from I386 copied to HD, and everything is well I think.

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the correct command to run from the i386 folder for XP is just "winnt". This is like the winnt /b command in NT in that no floppies are required.
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Actually, I would have used Winnt if I had not already installed windows, but I had. So I used winnt32 while windows was running to upgrade to xp, and create a local source of I386
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