Starting autorun INF

Is it possible to initiate autorun other than by inserting a disk. I would like to initiate the process without having to reinsert a disk each time, can that be done?

 

I am trying to bypass having to insert the disk to initiate the function on the disk. In this case I cannot reset the boot sequence so that I can boot to a cd and install the OS.
The disk works and so does the reader but for some reason the system will not go to the CD. I want to boot to a floppy then run the cd autorun function.

 

I set the bios to the correct sequence but for some reason it does not seek the CD NO light on the CD before getting the error message saying the hard drive does not have an OS. I have done various checks but been unable to get it to autostart the install from the CD that is why I am trying to find out if the autorun can be stated from the dos prompt once I have booted from a floppy. I know I could use the four disk floppt, I am using win 2K but that is onerous. I am trying to learn something nnew on this one.

 

Something on a w2k bootable cd tells the computer to read the CD and initiate the process of installing the OS my boot process is not doing this. I want to know if there is another way to initiate that process. I may not be clear and hope this makes it clear what I would like to do. I understand the other options to install the OS but that is not what is being asked here.

 

No, there isn't. Well at least there's no simple way to do it. This is evident by the fact that MS uses 4 floppies to start the installation process. My guess is that if they could have, they would have only used one.

 

Tony
I wondered if you could just run winnt.exe but I've never tried it so was hesitant to say so (I've hardly had anything to do with 2k). If that's the case though, why all those floppies from MS? Why not use a regular boot floppy and just call winnt.exe from the autoexec.bat on it?

 

After thinking about this a bit (something I should have done to begin with ) perhaps all of the floppies aren't there for just starting setup? I was thinking perhaps they are necessary for all the other things that you can do with the cd. Running the recovery console being an example. Or are you able to do that by just running setup too?

 

OK, thanks.