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- From: act@softserver.canberra.edu.au (Cyclops)
- Subject: Re: minimum requirements for NT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.063251.20363@csc.canberra.edu.au>
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- Organization: University of Canberra
- References: <sntywc-@rpi.edu>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 06:32:51 GMT
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- In article <sntywc-@rpi.edu> gilem@aix.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile) writes:
- >1) is it really necessary to have 12M to run NT, or can you do it in 8
-
- No you can do it in 8 megs, BUT you cannot run the graphics install as it
- slaps your wrists and say that you have to have 12meg and aborts. The
- dos2nt.bat doesn't check. In 8 megs it probably runs a bit slow, but it
- goes. Also while the graphic install make you create a 20meg swap file the
- dos2nt way only wants 15megs - again there is probably a downside when you
- need a bit of virtual grey matter.
-
- >2) i know that you need a CD-ROM to install NT. I have access to
- >an apple CD-ROM drive to read it, is it possible to use this to
- >install NT, and if so, what type of SCSI controller would I need
-
- The deal is that the NT graphic install only has drivers for those CDROMS
- listed in the Hardware Compatibilty List. If you can otherwise mount your
- CD-ROM drive as a DOS volume then you are able to do the cheap and nasty
- batch file install. In this latter case you may need to edit the boot.ini
- file which appears in your root directory, particularly if you install on
- D:. You will need to change \nt refs to \winnt refs and change c: to
- <whatever>:. Note I copied all the files to a unix box and PC-NFS mounted
- them and ran the batch install that way. PS if you use an apple(wash my mouth
- out) to copy the files up in this way it may stuff the files names!!
-
- >3) when are more svga drivers coming out?
-
- dunno
-
-
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