I was just on-line reading about that. They are the official CDs so I assume that I can. Maybe my bios on that machine isn't looking to the CD on startup. If I get that to work, am I able to partition/format the drive and create extended partitions and logical drives from the CD before I install the OS?

>Hi Jay,
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>Did you try to boot from installation CD directly or they are not bootable?
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>>I go through this every year or so when I have to totally wipe a box out and install a new OS. I end up with DOS disks, W98 Setup Disks, various CDs, Fdisk, Format, etc...and I still seem to never find the right combination of things to get the OS on the system easily.
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>>Just a couple problems I have:
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>>- Used Fdisk to partition the drive. Great, but with DOS 6.22 it doesn't allow large hard drives.
>>- Then try Fdisk on the W98 Setup Disk and that allows large drives. But the Format doesn't work in DOS.
>>- Try to use the 4 W2K installation disks that I made from another box. No hard drive formatted, no install allowed.
>>- Try to install directly from the CDs (W2KP or XPP) but it cannot run from DOS.
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>>Everybody else must do it the right way, which is obviously not the way I use. I have a totally wiped box - what do I do to get W2KP and XPP installed?