Oh wait… copying files?! Wait, that’s right. Oh well… at least I’m not staring at blue Microsoft progress bars… these are yellow. Windows Server 2008 would’ve been installed by now. Where are my fast format options, anyway? This is taking up way more time than usual. While useful for dual boot scenarios with FAT-based Windows NT installations, nowadays you don’t need to choose to format your system partition with FAT or NTFS. F8 is used to agree with it, which is a nice touch, but got canned somewhere along the way. WordPerfect under water screen galore! One of the screens, by the way, is the End User License Agreement (EULA). Windows 2000 Server uses a text-based setup to go through the first few steps to install your server. Don’t forget to take floppy four out of the machine too: your box won’t but until you do… Both a 16-bit tool ( makeboot.exe) and a 32-bit tools ( makebt32.exe) are available to do so.Afterwards it’s time to boot from floppy 1, change floppies 2 through 4 and after 10 minutes finally doing some real installing. The BOOTDISK subfolder contains four *.img files that need to be written to floppies.

This version of the Windows 2000 Server CD is not bootable. The CD I’m using is Windows 2000 Server without any Service Packs. These changed made me feel a bit nostalgic, but I’m glad installing has been made SO much simpler in the last years. While installing this Operating System, which is nearly ten years old and nearly out of support, I noticed some differences, compared to installing Windows Server 2008. Yesterday I needed to install a box with Microsoft Windows 2000 Server for some educational purposes.

Windows 2000 product key