NT4 Simple Installation

brynet

Hello, I Have Recently Downloaded A Few OS's From Here And They Did Not Work, Well I Found Out How Now. First Get NT4WS From WinWorld Download Section.Now Its .rar Not ISO Wich Is Unfortunate .. I Tryed Using WinISO To Copy The Boot Sector Or Win2k ISO I Had And Make A Custom ISO With The NT4's I386 Folder Wich Didnt Work So I Found Out A Easy Way, Download NT4 Then Put The I386 Folder On A cd-r or cd-rw .. Download MS-DOS 6 Bootdisk From www.bootdisk.com .

Boot The Floppy And Check With FDISK .. Make Sure You Dont Have A FAT32 Partion On The Drive Your Installing NT4 On As NT4 Does Not Support FAT32 (Wich WinWorld Does Not Inform)

NT4 Was Made Around The Date Of Win95 (Wich Didnt Know Of Fat32 At The Time) Ok After You Create A FAT16 Partion Type The Drive Letter That MS-DOS Boot Disk Gave Your CD-ROM "d:" (msdos 6 bootdisk makes the cd-rom drive letter "r:") After That Type "CD\I386" Then Type "winnt /b /s:r:\i386" (change r:\i386 to the cd-rom drive letter) It Should Now Exclude The Making DOS Disks And Install The MS-DOS Portion Of NT4 Setup.

After It Copy's The Files To The Fat16 Part (format it rememer) .. Reboot (when using the ms-dos disk make sure boot drive order in bios floppy then hard-drive) After Setup Copy's The Setup Files And Reboots Enter Bios And Make Harddisk The First Boot Device. (Or just remove the floppy)

If It Works .. It Should Install Successfully ...

You May Also Need The CD-KEY For This Wich Il Greatfully Offer.

Sorry For My Typing.. If You Need More Help Email Me
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Download NT4 Workstion

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http://wwsvr.bounceme.net/os/WindowsNT4WS.rar

Download NT4 SP6a (Service Pack) (Full Installation 34.5mb)

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http://download.microsoft.com/download/ ... p6i386.exe

Download NT4 SP6a (Service Pack) (Net Installation 1.6mb)

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http://download.microsoft.com/download/ ... h_i386.exe

Download IE6 (Internet Explorer 6) (Net Installation)

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http://download.microsoft.com/download/ ... 6setup.exe


Hope I Help A Little....
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nightice

Um, it's an ISO inside of a RAR. And besides, the same effect can be obtained by simply booting off of the CD (most BIOSes from NT4's era onwards support it).

BlueSun

for most techies like us this is common sense if your BIOS doesn't support booting from the CD ROM

but for the less knowledgable this is usfull information...

you you download most anything form winworld it is in the .RAR format, as it states.... you also need a program to read ISO images

winRAR will read RAR files and ISO images

now you need a CD writting program that can burn ISO's to CD's, alcohol 120% and Nero can do this....

nightice

Yeah, WinRAR does ISO, that confuses a lot of people. (check the linuxiso.org forums for examples, most of us that give out help tell people to not open up an ISO, especially with WinRAR)

wingzeroismine

Are the cd images from winworld supposed to be self-booting? Maybe they should all be fixed to self-boot if they aren't already.

Ka0s

wingzeroismine wrote:

Are the cd images from winworld supposed to be self-booting? Maybe they should all be fixed to self-boot if they aren't already.

They are.

wingzeroismine

Ah good to know.... I haven't actually downloaded too many of them.... as I had all the ones I wanted before I even found this place...

Bash

Winworld should have this a a tutorial if there is going to be a tutorial section

Josh

Even the NT 3.1? The legit CD's that I have aren't even bootable.

BOD

my NT 3.51 isnt

wingzeroismine

Well... if they are made bootable originally then they are boot here too. I don't think they would make bootable cds from things that didn't boot in the first place. Though yeah you could use a program to make a cd emulate a bootable floppy.

nightice

NT 3.1's SETUPLDR only does FAT (remember, it *had* to be installed with a floppy), that complicates things a bit.

Q

I think the NTs that were bootable are (NT 4, maybe 3.51). The 3.1s and I think maybe 3.5s aren't just because the CD bootability didn't exist back then (Not sure exactly when bootable CDs and BIOSes that supported them came into widespread existance in relation to the NTs).

-Q

nightice

The standard dates from 1995 I think, and probably happened too late for MS to reissue a bunch of NT 3.51 CDs.

Tokimemofan

Windows NT4 does support CD boot, I have a retail full RTM package with part number 236-00001 and CD part number 236-270-231. The build date is 8/8/1996 so I am confident that the all full versions of NT4 are bootable, especially considering repeated mentioning of the feature in the instructions. It would hard to imagine them redoing the instructions and discs so quickly just to quietly slip the feature in.

os2fan2

Windows NT4 does support booting from cdrom. The default boot behaviour is to boot to install, but with the NT5 bootsector + bootfix.bin, it can behave in the same manner as NT5.

Look at http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=82169 , my comment on installing Windows NT4 on modern hardware + installing service pack 5.

You can generally get cdroms to boot on ancient hardware with either "smart boot manager" or bcdl (see http://bootcd.narod.ru/index_e.htm ). Both of these will boot from a floppy disk and then try to boot a cdrom. I normally keep both, if just to save the hassle of reseting the bios.

UglynGrey

If I install NT 4 on (relatively) modern hardware I boot from CD. If the install is going on era hardware (400Mhz) or less, I create the i386 directory on the local hardrive and install from there.

The reason is it just seems a whole lot faster on old hardware when the files are already on an HD. (regardless of the actual CD ROM speed).