Bill, I pointed Harry to a Win2000 folder I put on Dropbox that
seemed to be the one you recommended, entitled
"Windows-2000-SP4-Final-2011-Edition_(all-updates)" -- I grabbed
this file months ago on your suggestion, I believe, and I also
picked up another ISO seemed legit online and that I have used.
I just ran the setup for
Windows-2000-SP4-Final-2011-Edition_(all-updates) (the ISO is
W2K-2011.iso) on my machine, in Virtualbox, and all appears fine,
using a host-only network adapter and a PS/2 mouse. (Those were the
only default settings I altered besides choosing to use a disk of
fixed size.) There is an opportunity to register after setup is
complete, but you can click thru that and never see it again so far
as I can tell. I did encounter a slow reboot the first time, but
after that things run fast and smooth. Didn't bother completing the
setup beyond that -- I merely wanted to verify that things did work.
Initial setup less than 20 mins. So things look fine at my end,
anyway.
The other ISO, which I also have used successfully without issues
and used XyWrite on, does ask for a product key (which for
installation ease I added to the ISO's name). I don't think there
should be any problems with that ISO, if Harry grabbed that one
instead.
Paul Lagasse
On 07/26/2014 04:56 PM, Bill Troop
wrote:
Harry, I'd like to know what file you were trying to work with, so
as to
be able not to recommend it. The file I recommend does not require
a
serial and has no viruses. I would not have recommended it so
enthusiastically if there had been such a problem. Sorry to hear
that you
have had so many difficulties. For me, from downloading the ISO to
running XyWrite took about 20 minutes and there just weren't any
problems.