Interesting. I loaded 7 on a 2000 box and it did fine. Were you trying to load the 64bit version on a 32 bit system?
Nope, it's the 32bit version and it said the OS was incompatible,. However it was an old box and I think that Win2000 was at SP2.

I'm damn impressed with the 32 bit beta.
I agree, apart from the goldfish of course Certainly seems to be a move in the right direction.

also 1 gig ram on 32bit is fine.
Yes, that's all mine has. I deliberately chose an older machine to check out potential transition issues with stuff running XP at the moment. From that viewpoint it certainly looks a better prospect than Vista.