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- From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.apps
- Subject: Re: For those with the NT beta... a question.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.162134.29822@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 16:21:34 GMT
- Article-I.D.: news.1992Nov18.162134.29822
- References: <1992Nov17.235358.23725@utkux1.utk.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov17.235358.23725@utkux1.utk.edu> harp@martha.utcc.utk.edu (harp) writes:
- [...]
- >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).
-
- It might not appear at all, if it is not a SCSI CD-ROM drive, since
- apparently Microsoft didn't include an NT capable CD-ROM driver routine
- with the NT distribution. I haven't been able to try it out yet,
- because I am still working on getting my memory upgraded to permit
- booting NT. Can anyone who has booted NT confirm or deny this nasty
- report, which I heard from a coworker who has NT? If this is true,
- can NT use the standard MSCDEX driver? I am holding back from any
- outbursts until I know the facts about this potential problem.
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