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- From: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
- Subject: Re: NT Destined to Succeed??
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.153059.24804@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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- Reply-To: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
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- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 15:30:59 GMT
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- In <C0H2xH.BvA@news.iastate.edu> TW.FY4@isumvs.iastate.edu (Timothy I Miller) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan6.184720.321@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de>,
- >hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter) writes:
- >>
- > Actually, I feel like I can compare the OS/2 which is on my
- >machine, without TCP/IP and LAN Server, to Window NT because I just
- >did a base installation (probably the same thing I would do with
- >NT). Do you get a choice to have these things installed, or would I
- >have to go through and manually take the networking stuff out? I
- >think it makes a big difference.
-
- Sure, you can decide at installation time not to install any network
- features. I need networking here and I installed both OS/2 and NT
- with network and TCP/IP. The only thing I don't like is, when people
- compare performance of OS/2 2.0 GA without networking to Windows NT
- beta with networking and TCP/IP, which has been done here in this
- group.
-
- > Of course, I can't load NT onto my hard drive anyway, since it:
- >
- > 1) Won't install if Boot manager is on the disk
- There is a simple fix for it. Just set the partition type of the boot
- manager to zero and keep it the active (boot) partition.
-
- > 2) Doesn't come with adaptec 1522 drivers
- Right, not now.
-
- > 3) Won't let me install the swap file onto a different disk
- > until after NT's been installed
- I had 3 MB free space on my C: drive, which was enough to install NT.
- I then selected a swapfile on another drive.
-
- > 4) Requires to be installed on drive C: (along with the swap
- > file)
- No, you can choose at installation time to install it on any drive.
- Only a couple of files of about 1 MB totally must reside on C:
-
-
- Christoph
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