[DIY] Windows2000 three-in-one CD

How to make Windows 2000 three-in-one CD (a)

A. Description:

1, Windows 2000 three-in-one CD refers to Make three versions of WIN2000 PRO, SERVER and ADVSERVER into one CD.

Since many of the files in these three versions are the same, you can share these same files with the cdimage tool used internally by Microsoft, instead of repeatedly placing them on a CD, so that the three full versions ( 1.2G) can be placed on a CD (more than 500 M).

For details, please see the help file included with cdimage.

2, this article describes how to use this three-in-one CD to become the boot CD, and the menu mode selects three OS to install.
present as a bootable CD boot screen,

MultiBoot Setup Title

A.Setup Win2000 Professional
B.Setup Win2000 Server
C.Setup Win2000 Adv Server

Select item to boot...

Select A, B, C to enter their respective bootstrap, the boot is a Windows 2000/NT-specific boot mode installation, not simply by running winnt.exe installation.

3. This article is sent to me by DuYihua, thank you very much! The original text of DuYihua is written in great detail.

The webmaster has a copy of the genuine three-in-one disc on hand. Last year, a netizen used NERO to help me copy it. The original disc can be three-boot, and this copy disc cannot be booted.

Because the directory structure of the genuine three-in-one disc is slightly different from what DuYihua said,
such as the Windows 2000 Advance Server directory on the genuine CD is: simpchinwin2000adv_srv
and DuYihua wrote Windows 2000 Advance The Server directory is: simpchinwin2000adv_svr
In order to be consistent with the genuine, so some modifications were made.

B. Body part:

Attachment: DuYihua's original text

After many times (DuYihua) tracking, I found that the key to Win2000 startup is that its boot file is solidified. The i386 directory, as long as you modify its boot file, you can boot different Win2000 installations from different places.

Win2000 boot process:
Boot->setupldr->ntdetect->boot driver->read txtsetup.sif->start installation

Runtime Environment: Requirements Under Windows 2000, because the production tool CDImage can only run under Win2000.

The following is the production process:

1. First you should have the tools mentioned above.

There are also binary editing tools, such as: Ultraedit, solve img file tools, such as: winimage

2. You should have three versions of Win2000 files, preferably each version has bootdisk Directory (boot floppy).

3. You should have the Win2000 startup file

This is assumed to be w2ksect.dat. Copy him to three, here is assumed to be wprosect.dat, wsrvsect.dat, asrvsect.dat