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Installing 98 on NT Workstation

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by dean

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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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by dc1

Create a DOS boot disk from another Win9x machine and boot up off of that disk. Since the partition is FAT you can change to the directory with the 98 CAB files and install that way.

by dean

I am not trying to be smart here. I thought of that, if I had a diskette drive or CD-ROM drive I would not have any reason to post this question. Read the very first sentence.

Thanks.

by adelhier

Sorry to tell you but you can not install win9x on an NT Computer.

What I am saying is that the steps to install win9x an NT are you must install win9x first then you can install NT. This is so that os booy software can start win9x and nt.

This is the steps that os's have to be intalled win9x then NT then Win2k.

The main reson for this is that NT and Win2k put some files on the master boot record to start the OS.

I hope this can help.

Andy

by wanabedrsean

you can install windows 95/98 on a windows nt box useing a fat16 file system however you need at least to have a floppy drive in order to do it and it requires some advanced editing of the boot.ini file a winnt40 system file on the root of c thet tells the boot loader whe location of the operating system startup files through the use of a menu selection. you could boot up to seven operating systems with nt boot loader and with utilities such as system commander you can boot even more but it allstarts with a floppy drive so it can be done but it isnt easy to install in that order nt4 first and win98 second and it is an extremly advanced process to do it without a floppy so much so i will only give you an idea but it still involves a systemfile copy over the network to the root of c: and an edit of the boot ini once again. you cant start the win 9x setup program from nt because nt actualy uses a kernal closer to os/2 or posix than dos dos apps run in the ntvdm wich stands for the nt virtual dos machine. I hope this awnswers your question if you have any questions email me at sps77@home.com

by jdubrow

I would recommend loading a second part utility like vmware (www.vmware.com). This software lets you run two or more operating systems at one time. I personally use it on a w2k professional base and have a win98 vm session. It works great and you can have both os's running at the exact same time..

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