windowsnt on 486

win98

Hi Guys My 486sx33 has windows95a i think it is crap i want to put windowsnt4 on it but all i have is a floppy drive in it i tried connecting a 8x cd-rom but i could not find a double ide for it isn there any way i can install it via floopy disk please help me from the guy who you think is a windows9x fan but this windows98se computer crashes after you have used it for awhile also i only have 16mb of ram

nightice

Try copying it over a network. I'm going to warn you that NT4 will run like crap on only 16MB of RAM.

win98

i can't setup a network because it is a compaq prolinea 486 and i am not going to buy it one

BlueSun

i don't get what the brand of the computer has to do with it.. i haev a compaq prolinea that networks bueatifuly

anywasy take it from me.... i have run NT 4 ona 33mhz with 20MB of ram... it was PURE SHIT!

my copy of NT wasn't great in the first place..... but it crashed with a BSOD every 5 minutes.....

trust me 95 is way better for that machine..... or if you want a bit of use for it, try installing NT 3.51 ... runs good on those specs.....

Anonymous

okay guys i am going to stick with 95 hey it has a 200mb harddisk and i made a windows95 primary partion and 10 logical drive at 10mb each it was a good way to keep things sperate also my primary partion is 100mb and who thinks i should upgrade to 95b if you think i should email me at philipmartelli@yahoo.co.nz I am a dumbass.

BlueSun

exsesive smilies use!!!! its as bad as the caps...

100MB and windows 95? your crazzy as hell what do you plan to actually run?

JackTheStripper

If your Compaq has an integerated or Compaq brand NIC, don't use the NT drivers becuase they don't work for some reason. Get the drivers from Compaq's website.

MentalMadness

That explains it.

BOD

If you did use NT4 there wouldnt be much disk space left on 200MB

MentalMadness

BOD wrote:

If you did use NT4 there wouldnt be much disk space left on 200MB

You cant install service pack 6 on a 200mb drive. I tried that once with an AMD 350 mhz system with dual 200mb drives

BlueSun

NT 4 with no service packs, in my experiance couldn't do much.....

everything said it needed like SP4 or higher

os2fan2

You can install Windows NT from Windows 98, as long as there is a partition big enough to hold the files twice over.

I had no probs running Windows NT4 on a 486dx66 with 20 mb memory. Your c: partition should be a fat16 drive, and you can install NT4 and 9x on their own native partitions like and E:. As long as you can hold the i386 directory from the cdrom, and enough to spread it out, cdrom install runs soothly.

I used PC-DOS 7.0 to install Windows NT from the command prompt. It takes ages though.

anantha92

stikc with 95, if you really want nt4 get atleast 32 mb of ram. Should come dirt cheap nowadays, the sd ram.

BOD

*sigh*

Ka0s

os2fan2: START READING THE DATES ON THINGS YOU RESPOND TO

Duff

Indeed, this topic is just short of 2 years old.

nightice

Can we please automatically ban anyone that replies to 2-year-old threads?

Wipeout

Lol why? There so big of a post gap, that the 2 year old posts are on the first page! For all we know, it could have been a date malfunction.

BOD

It's annoying.

Wipeout

Then put the old posts as archive or make em invisible.

Q

nightice wrote:

Can we please automatically ban anyone that replies to 2-year-old threads?

Certainly not. ANYONE who legitimately tries to help but makes mistakes should be told, in a less harsh manner then that, about the huge date-gap in these forums. I know I made this comment in a thread somewhere, I suspect others have PMd.

And, as Fish has said, it's not like we ban people here anymore anyway...

-Q

alexzarach

ka0s wrote:

os2fan2: START READING THE DATES ON THINGS YOU RESPOND TO

Can you be a little more subtle?

anantha92

Its not its his fault that theres threads taht go back 2 years lying around.

Q

Especially since alot of their posts are incredibly detailed, rather then just "lol me too" or whatever some of the reactions seem more appropriate for.

-Q