[NTLUG:Discuss] Win2K too old to install?? & SATA [ON-TOPIC in P.S.ed FYI]

[David Simmons]

Guys,

I've been able to get a few new components (for work) and have been
having a bear of a time getting Win2K installed/setup - maybe it's just
too darn old to install?

Setup:

     Motherboard:  MSI K8N Neo Platinum (nVidia nForce 250 chipset)
		    has two IDE and (4) SATA connections
     CPU:  Athlon64 3000+

I'm trying to install Win2K with the one and only drive, a SATA 250GB
Maxtor on the SATA1 slot.  What's interesting in the BIOS is that it
lists the drives as:
	IDE1	Master - CD-R/W
	IDE1	Slave - none
	IDE2	Master - CD-Rom
	IDE2	Slave - none
	IDE3	Master - Maxtor 250GB
	IDE4	Master - none
	IDE5	Master - none
	IDE6	Master - none

I thought maybe, during the installation that I'd need to supply the
driver for the SATA - but the system found the drive and formated NTFS
(of course only the first 137GB - but that's another story)....with
after the reboot and it looks for devices - it hangs for a LONG TIME
(guess shouldn't say 'hang' because Num-Lock still responses, but % done
stays same - for hours).

After two or three reset-switch reboots...it does finish, but then won't
show 'Device Manager'...something's screwy.

Any ideas? - Thanks - dave

P.S. as an FYI, the Knoppix A64 cd-rom runs GREAT on
it....grin...complained a bit in DMESG about APIC...so I turned off in
BIOS, but you know Linux, it found it and turned it back on...grin