[228] in winnt
Re: NT install
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael C. Kutney)
Tue Sep 22 15:46:22 1998
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 1998 15:45:14 -0400
To: "tanya e. pfeffer" <tpfeffer@MIT.EDU>
From: "Michael C. Kutney" <mkutney@MIT.EDU>
Cc: ntpartners@MIT.EDU
There are three alternate ways to proceed depending on your system
capabilities.
If you can change your BIOS to boot off the CD-ROM first, then you can boot
off the WinNT CD and load WinNT. You don't need to use any floppies with
this method.
Secondly, you can copy the entire i386 directory onto your hard drive if
you have enough space for it (60MB) and the WinNT installation (~130MB)
through DOS or Win3.1 and then run 'winnt.exe /b'
after a semi-clean boot. ****Note that your semi-clean boot should have
himem.sys loaded in a config.sys file and have smartdrv.exe running because
the WinNT installation will be ~10 times faster than if you don't run
this.**** I am pretty sure that I did it this way when I had to install
WinNT on a notebook without a CD-ROM.
Third, you can boot to DOS with himem, smartdrv, and your CD-ROM driver
loaded, and then run 'winnt.exe /b' from the CD's i386 directory.
Good luck,
Michael
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