Thanks to everyone for all of the responses. I haven't gotten around to
trying any of the suggestions yet, my thesis is about to be due and my
priorities have changed. I'll let you know when I do.

My CDROM is in fact ATAPI compliant and I can boot cd's from it, the
FreeBSD disks boot just fine. The win2k cd I have is definately not
bootable, but its not an original either. My university bought into MS's
mega-license for everyone policy so I have a copy that I got from higher
up admins. I guess they didn't do it right. Not suprising, this whole
place is run by untrained monkeys.

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