That part takes forever. You must be brave for trying that. I don't think thats enough ram to run 2000 sp4. You might try to get your hands on NLITE and making a custom install cd with litterally everything removed that isn't required to have a desktop. Then you should probably test it on vmware before trying to run it IRL. Then give it another try. I wouldn't try running win 2k with less than 128mb and thats with stripping the os components and services. Theres no point other than to say I did it, because its not usable,

Thanks for the reply. I'll try and let it run overnight. I want to see if this machine will connect to World Community Grid just to see if it's possible, I couldn't get it to connect on Win98 (think W98 is just too outdated at this point even with the kernel extensions).

I tried a different .iso and the install completed without problems.