From: "Geo." 

You may be right, floppy may be using DOS as a loader. The only time I've
ever used them was when I hit a bug that wouldn't allow you to ID a drive
if you had an IDE CDrom (I forget the exact reason but it was only with one
motherboard I had).

But since I can boot the CD and install and no dos then does it really
require dos or is that just a cheat for floppy installs? I could probably
create a boot CD using dos as well but it's not required.

Geo.

"Mike N."  wrote in message
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> On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 15:28:12 -0800, "Rich"  wrote:
>
> >   Still I think you are speaking of something other than the Windows
2000 boot loader.
> > The boot loader is located in C:\NTLDR and it does not contain the
strings you give.  Neither does the
> >  boot sector, either on the hard disk or the one on the Windows 2000
CD-ROM.  Maybe you mean
> > the floppy disk images on the CD-ROM in the \BOOTDISK folder?
>
>    It's on fhe floppy disk images.   I wouldn't have normally thought the
> Win 2000 install program used MSDOS, but I distinctly remember getting an
> MSDOS shell or an  MSDOS error message at some point on a problem install
> several years ago.

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