Thanks Paul,   
    That was the method I was using in installing the Win98 from Win 95. Not sure if what I have is an upgrade CD of Win2000. This was purchased the same time I bought a new motherboard and hard drive for an earlier computer. When I try to boot from CD I get "invalid system disk" If I do boot into DOS with a Dos boot disk and then try to run "setup" I get a "program can't be run in DOS mode" 
    Hopefully I'm providing enough info. I would just think that I should be able to install on a new machine.

TIA  
Rob Shane 
    
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  Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 22:27
  Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Win 2000 Pro fresh install


  In a message dated 8/11/2005 8:53:04 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes:
    Trying to do a fresh install of Win2000 Pro. Is it possible to do this =
    without having to install Win98 and then upgrade. Tried running the =
    Win2000 boot disks and it appears that it is beginning to load but the I =
    get a message "error 7  file ntkrnlmp.exe could not be loaded". Am I =
    doing something wrong or missing something?

    Is it possible to do a clean/fresh install of Win2000 without doing the =
    upgrade thing.

    TIA

    Rob Shane
  Hi,
    The Win2K upgrade CD is bootable, you may have to change the boot order in the BIOS to have it boot from the CD. Once it boots from the CD, it will start the Windows install. If you are installing on a blank hard drive, it will do a check and say it can't find a qualifying product to upgrade. At this point, you put your Win98 CD in, and it reads a few files to verify it's an official qualifying product, then it continues with the Win2K install. That way you get a nice clean Win2K install, without it being an upgrade from Win98. I've done this MANY times, and it works fine. 

  HTH,
  Peter Hogan
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