I've wasted a whole day to clean-install WinXP SP1a on my notebook on which SATA hard drive is attached while legacy floppy drive is not.
The whole story is as follows
I struggled manually at first by editting txtsetup.sif and putting some drivers.
I wasted my 3 pieces of CD-R and which made me feel really poor.
In the end I decided to surredner to nLite.
Unluckily it did not werk at all on my win2k even if custom netframewerk files for nLite are installed.
So I decided to surrender to download windows installer 3.0 then install full-netframewerk 2.0.
To make matters worse microsoft does not allow me to download installer 3.0.
At this time I was thinking to buy usb floppy drive just to install SATA driver.
But I hapened to notice the fact my main PC contains expired Windows2003 Server Trial Edition.
So I resorted to that final hope.
And it werked.