Very OT: Install windows 2k onto a SATA drive

[Simon Ryley <simon.ryley@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I have a nice pile of shiny new bits which I have made into the new
media PC / PVR for the lounge.

The problem I have is that I can't install windows 2k onto it.

The machine has a SATA hard drive installed, no floppy drive and no cd.
(DVD RW drive may come later)

The plan was to boot the machine using a USB stick, then install windows
2k from a network share.  (This bit all works)

The problem is that the windows setup program doesn't see the SATA
drive, and so asks for a driver.  I have the driver, but the only place
the program will look is the a: drive, which doesn't exist on my
machine.  I can't work out a way to tell the setup program to look
elsewhere.

Anyone have any suggestions for how to get around this one?  I don't
have a floppy drive lying around to use, and I can't see the point in
buying one to use for 5 minutes.

Googling suggests slipstreaming the driver files into the win2k install,
but I was wondering if there was a simpler way?

The usb drive is always recognized as c: Is there any way of making the
machine see this as an a: drive instead?  If so, then I can put the SATA
drivers on there.

Thanks for any suggestions, this is driving me crazy...

Simon