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Any way to trick 98 to ne NT?

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by tim d il

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I'm running Personal Web Server as a test to try out an intranet in my office. I need to run Office extensions on the web server I have designated, but I can't because the server is running Windows 98 and not NT/2000. Is there any way to trick 98 into being "NT98"?

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by dmiles

No,if this was possible then Microsoft would not be in court you may possibly download the web server from microsoft web site

See the following sites
1)http://g-lea.tamu.edu/Getstart.htm
2)www.coveryourasp.com/PWS.asp

No spaces in the URL

by shanghai sam

Sorry... that looks meaner than it should be. Anyways.... I'm looking to see if there is a way I can install Office Server Extensions to a Windows 98 Personal Web Server. When I tried, it told me I needed to use Windows NT.

by sebeling

no. They have different kernels. You can always upgrade or dual boot though. If you decide to dual boot make sure both partitions are fat - not fat32 or NTFS. Win95/98 can't read NTFS and NT can't read FAT32

by shanghai sam

This one is a big help, actually. I just am not ready to close the question. I actually have more questions... how do I dual boot? What is the fat partition as opposed to a fat32 or NTFS?

by shanghai sam

Reference the following sites
Dual Booting
1) http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q153/7/62.asp
2)www.pmgi.com/TT online/d8.html
3)www.windows-help.net/windows98/start-02a.shtml

File System
1)www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/file/fat.htm
2)http://home.no.net/tkos/info/fat.html
3)www.microsoft.com/hwdev/devdes/fat32.htm
4)http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q100/1/08.ASP

Microsoft-Personal Web Server
1)http://glea.tamu.edu/Getstart.htm
2)http://jansfreeware.com/articles/pwsrebot.html
3)www.studiodeluxe.net/pws

There should be no spaces in the URL

by saihib

If you want to "try out" an intranet in your office you had better be prepared for a journey into the unknown. If you want to do it right,upgrade your software, IIS does work well.

by tim d il

Hello! Well, I want to upgrade the computer to Windows 2000 (Professional until if/when we get a new file/program server) and use IIS. The problem is getting my boss to see it that way... we'll see! Thanks for your feedback!

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