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- From: strobl@gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl)
- Subject: Re: Beta-zoid (wuz Re: NT to be launched at Comdex/Spring,...)
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- References: <1993Jan24.030639.17197@msi.com> <strobl.727876597@gmd.de> <1993Jan24.134816.12997@ludd.luth.se> <1juk8gINNeml@tamsun.tamu.edu>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 23:19:01 GMT
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- In <1juk8gINNeml@tamsun.tamu.edu> bdubbs@cs.tamu.edu (Bruce Dubbs) writes:
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- >In article <1993Jan24.134816.12997@ludd.luth.se> bjorn@ludd.luth.se (Bjorn Fahller) writes:
- >|In <strobl.727876597@gmd.de> strobl@gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl) writes:
- >|>The current NT prerelease doesn't require a CD-ROM, either. If you
- >|>have ftp access, you'll most probably have temporary access to a
- >|>Unix workstation with a CD drive, too. Mount the CD, ftp the contents
- >|
- >|Eh, what? I do? This isn't meant to be any kind of bashing of anything,
- >|but I do wonder about your conclusion. I guess there probably y are
- >|a few workstations with CD drives here on the campus, maybe, but I
- >|certainly don't know where or how to get to them, if they exist.
-
- >I don't know where I can find a CD-ROM either. I may be able to
- >search one out, but they certainly are not common here. Even if I
- >did have one available, I would have to copy everything to floppy to
- >bring it home. Is there a procedure to load NT from floppy?
-
- I don't know - I don't have the time to format and copy about
- 40 MBytes (not including the System Development Kit) to floppies.
-
- I did it using a streamer, a few times - I copied the contents
- of the installation directory from CD to tape, restored it to
- an OS/2 1.3/Lanman 2.0 server and did the install from there,
- over the network. The NT installation program copied everything
- to the local disk, requested a blank floppy, created a NT boot
- floppy, and rebooted into the native NT installation program.
-
- >Another point. Has MS given permission for anyone to load up NT. It
- >was my impression that the $69 for the CD-ROM was a license to use the
- >NT-Beta. Wouldn't indiscriminant copying violate MS's license?
-
- Sure. But they give detailed instructions how to do the above, in
- the small installation booklet which comes with the CD. So I
- presume that ownership of a CD drive as a precondition for
- using NT isn't part of the NT license.
-
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