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- From: rrohbeck@kboeng.enet.dec.com ()
- Subject: Re: Problems installing NT (from Netware 3.11)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.165649.20922@decuk.uvo.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Int. GmbH
- References: <1992Sep3.131513.7661@bohra.cpg.oz.au>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 16:56:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep3.131513.7661@bohra.cpg.oz.au>, daavid@bohra.cpg.oz.au (Daavid Turnbull) writes:
- >It is my understanding from what was said at the conference that NT can be
- >loaded from a CD rom drive mounted in a Novell Netware host. The default
- >installation gives no indication of how this might be achieved.
- >
- >If it is possible could some one in the know please post me a few clues.
- >
- >Thanks in advance, daavid
- In my first attempt, I used the DOS2NT install over a NetWare Lite connection
- (from the CD ROM hanging off the Soundblaster in my wife's game machine :-),
- and it worked, though I had a few minor glitches I can't explain.
- Quick instructions:
- Make sure you have supported hardware:
- Standard VGA (there are ET4000, V7 and XGA hires drivers)
- Standard AT drive preferred, some SCSI adapters supported, e.g.
- Adapted 1540/1542, WD7000EX, Future Domain
- Serial mouse or bus mouse (tricky, must be absolutely compatible.
- Mine doesn't work)
- 8 MB of RAM absolute minimum, MS says 12, more is better.
- 386 from C step or 486 SX/DX.
- Purge the root of anything not required, especially .BAT files and executtables
- other than COMMAND.COM. Have a CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT for DOS.
- Make sure you have at least 70 MB free.
- Recommended: Defragment your hard disk.
- Make the network connection. Go to the CD ROM DOS drive.
- cd \dos2nt
- dos2nt C:
- will copy the whole stuff to your hard disk and install the Flexboot.
- Be patient (especially over a cheap network and a cheap CD ROM drive, as in my
- case :-)
- Make sure all files from the CD have arrived, especially everything under
- the SYSTEM subdirectory (I had a problem here.)
- Edit C:\BOOT.INI (change \nt to \winnt) and
- c:\winnt\(don't know now)\registry.ini (See comments there).
- Reboot and see what happens. Be patient and expect two reboots.
- Hope this helps and I didn't forget anything vital.
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