NT WS Installation???

[rmorse66]

In my quest to hook up my home lab, I've made several unsuccessful attempts. Any advice would be great.

Computer 1. NT SERVER- 64mb, 400mhz, 27g HD
Computer 2. No OS- 16mb, 486 66mhz, 6.4 g HD

I've tried just about everything up to this point with no success. I did install 98 successfully, but the machine runs so slow. I want to put WS on Computer 2.

First I made the 3 NT boot floppies from the WS CD by going to the prompt and typing "cd i386\winnt32\ox. It worked, I have the 3 bootable floppies, but I can't install WS. I load the 3 boot disks and setup gets to the point where it tells me to press enter to restart my computer. I restart and it goes through the post which is fine and then it's at a stand-still with a blinking cursor?

Ok that didn't work so I tried to make the "Network Installation Startup Disks" from the Network Client Administrator. I followed MS instructions:

1. Run the Network Client Admin.
2. Click "Copy Client-based Network Administration Tools" and then click "Continue"
3. Click "Copy files to a new directory, and then Share", then Click "OK"
4. Create a winnt subdirectory of the clients directory.
5. Create a winnt.srv subdirectory of the clients directory.
6. Run xcopy /s /i D:\i386 C:\clients\winnt\netsetup

Now what, I have know idea what to do. I tried to copy the clients directory to floppies and then use them as boot disks, but this didn't work.

Another thing since I have an older BIOS I used a MAXTOR HDD Utility to load EZ Bios and I partitioned the HD into 4 equal segments. I tried to load WS on C: and D: with no success.

Please Help!


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Ryan Morse, A+

[behlert]

Try making a directory on C:\i386>...then copy the i386 folder from the CD to C:\i386>. Once completed go to the C:\i386> folder or directory and run winnt...you should not have any problems. good luck!!
FYI: NT Workstation will run slow on Computer 2 as well as W98 did. I'm sure you already knew this...

[This message has been edited by behlert (edited 03-30-2000).]