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- From: martin@iastate.edu (Martin R Calsyn)
- Subject: Re: For those with the NT beta... a question.
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <1992Nov17.235358.23725@utkux1.utk.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 01:40:50 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- In article <1992Nov17.235358.23725@utkux1.utk.edu> harp@martha.utcc.utk.edu (harp) writes:
- >
- >I have a few questions about the NT beta that I would like to resolve
- >before I receive my copy. [...]
-
- >1) I have two hard disks right now (200MB primary, 120MB secondary). I
- >would like to keep my normal stuff on the primary and put NT on the
- >secondary. Will I have a problem booting NT if it isn't my first hard disk?
-
- Nope. I have a 132M IDE drive formatted as a single DOS FAT partition
- (FAT being the default filesystem structure for DOS) and a second drive
- (SCSI) that is 100M of DOS and 100M of Windows/NT. The NT partition is
- formatted as NTFS.
-
- >2) If NT is on my first hard disk, have they supplied a little program that
- >lets me choose whether to boot dos or NT?
-
- It's called FlexBoot and it'll replace the current boot sectors on your
- primary (bootable) hard disk. Works well so long as you don't already
- have an OS/2 boot switcher in place. It'll give you a period of time to
- select a boot option. Once the time has expired it'll pick the default.
- Both the time and the default are configurable.
-
- >3) After popping the cd in the drive, will it appear just like another dos
- >partition, or is there a special disk to access the data on the cd. Reason
- >being that I would like to dump the cd onto my hard disk to enable me to
- >install NT away from a cd-rom drive (as well as faster).
-
- The CD appears just like any other FAT volume. Just having a CD-ROM
- isn't enough though, since NT doesn't support all CD-ROM drives. If you
- have an unsupported CD-ROM, you can install from DOS using a BATch
- script provided on the CD-ROM. Haven't tried this myself, but it's
- covered in the release notes.
-
- Just FYI, I used a Future Domain 1680 SCSI card, Quantum PD210S drive,
- and Hitachi 3750 CD-ROM all in a no-name 486/33 with 20M of memory.
- Works like a charm.
-
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