hey all. just trying to get away from windows every now and again. installed menuet to a floppy using minstall. i get the blue screen, enter my info, boot from floppy, then i gets to a screen that says something about all set and then 'press ESC to start'. but nothing happens when i press esc. running win2k machine pentium3.

This is a bug. Some machines (& most emulators) have this problem.
You will currently not be able to run menuetos. Maybe you could try it out on bochs...