instaling xp on lap top with no cd or floopy dirve

hi everyone, i was just following the instructions on this web site regarding installing xp on a lap top with no cd or floopy drive.

i did everything up to the step that requires to put the dos 7.1 on the desk top and intaling it on the laptop hard drive, however during the process there is a message that says "remove disks or other media" and "reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a any key"


guys i don't know what i am doing wrong, in fact i may have the wrong dos 7.1 but i am not sure. I burned the MS-Dos 7.10 CD full instalation and did not work and i also burned MS-DOS 7.10 boot disk that did not work either. which one do i need anyway, and how do i go about burning them(i could have made a mistake there) and finally i put the boot sequence cd drive first and hard drive next.

pelase help


thank you everyone

barro