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October 22, 2001 at 07:12 AM
dean

Installing 98 on NT Workstation

by dean . Updated 24 years, 10 months ago

I have a unique computer that does not have a CD-ROM drive or diskette drive. This computer is built specifically to run a Point of Sale program and has a built-in touch screen. It does have a network connection, serial port, 2 USB ports, paralelle port and NT Workstation installed.

I would like to install Windows 98 as well on this machine but I am running into a problem when I try to run setup. I get a message saying to shutdown NT Workstation and go to a command prompt to run setup.The hard drive is formatted in FAT. I got the computer on the network and Xcopied the Windows 98 CD on to the hard drive. With that done, how do you shutdown NT Workstation to a DOS prompt? When I go to Start, Shutdown I do not see an option to Restart in MS-DOS mode like you do with 95 & 98. Going to a simple command prompt does not work either.

I have a feeling this is pretty easy, I hope I am right.

Thanks,
Dean

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