[elduderino]

Hi

I keep getting a Bandwidth exceeded error message when trying to get copies of the 2003 boot Floppies, here
Can anybody give me another link please.

Many Thanks.

[elduderino]

Hi
There is a way to make 2003 boot floppies using XP Pro Boot floppies, can someone tell me how please.
Thanks

[Gladiac]

phew... With XP Boot Floppies? Yay, maybe...

My XP Boot Floppies have different files than my srv03 ones... but try the following:

1. Take the xp bootfiles ( i did it with the server2003 ones in english to make them german...)
2. Take your original Setup Disk of Server2003
3. Copy SETUPREG.HIV, SETUPLDR.BIN, NTDETECT.COM and NTDLL.DLL from your setupdisk (in I386\) and paste them to your bootfloppyfiles in the root. Now copy SYSTEM32 directory (also in I386\) to the root of your bootfloppyfiles.

Hummm, I don't know exactly, if this is all you have to do because I copied very much files until I got it german. Maybe you have to copy the files:

KSECDD.SYS
NTFS.SYS
SPCMDCON.SYS

from I386\ from setupdisk to the root of the bootfloppyfiles... maybe...

good luck!

[elduderino]

Hi Gladiac
Thanks very much for the info,i will give it a go

[muff99]

hmmm ... sth about 2k3 seems wrong ... patched all files according to flyakite guide (great work, man!).

But when i boot it up (already in setup, blue background and stuff ...), it says "Cant find volsnap.sys" ... buit the file is there (volsnap.sy_ in setup\w2003srv\ent\i386). Is it possible that i have to point the setupsources to the i386 folder for win2k3? Pointing it to XP/2K folder (parentfolder of i386 in my dvd) worked withouzt problems ... the same in 2003 does not

[Gladiac]

okokok, i will upload the server2003 bootdisks for english and german users...

wait a minute...

[Gladiac]

Here they are:

English Server 2003 Bootdisk Files
German Server 2003 Bootdisk Files

have fun! ;D

[muff99]

!
your da man, Gladiac ... files working smoothly (at least the german ones), big thnx!

[Gladiac]

no problem ;D

[Sunil]

Thanks A bunch, Looking for these a long while, thanks

[gosh]

If your computer is so old that it doesn't support booting from cd, it's probably not compatible with server 2003 anyway.

-gosh

[Sunil]

gosh, on Dec 20 2003, 12:09 AM, said:

If your computer is so old that it doesn't support booting from cd, it's probably not compatible with server 2003 anyway.

-gosh

I think they wanted the files because they wanted to create an all in one..

[TRIBULATION]

Thank you so very much