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On Fri, 18 Oct 1996 17:23:21 +0100, in demon.ip.support.other, John Beardmore
(John Beardmore <wookie@wookie.demon.co.uk>) wrote:

> I've installed DOS on a new SCSI drive and run WINNT in \I386 on the CD
> ROM.

How big is the drive/partition?  Is this that repaired 4GB drive?

> Once it's made the boot floppy set, it bombs out with a "run-time error
> R6000 - stack overflow" !  Has anybody else seen this problem ?  If so,
> was there a simple work around ?

yuk, sounds nasty.  Have you tried creating a partition (of less than 512MB) and
formatting it FAT, booting to a DOS boot floppy with the CD-ROM driver on it and
then doing a winnt /b (floppyless operation) from the \i386\ directory of the
CD?  You can then run the convert command from NT after installation to change
it to an NTFS partition (although you will need to install again if you want the
default security settings on the files within the %systemroot% directory - I
think).

> Come to think of it, didn't somebody say that MS had dropped support for
> the 386 under NT 4.0 ?  If so, it seems a bit perverse to call the
> directory on the CD ROM \I386 !

They've certainly dropped the MIPS processor architecture for good now, I'll
just check the box on the other side of the room to see about the 386.

Yep, you're right, the minimum Intel x86 chipset supported is the 486/33, the
Pentium and Pentium Pro (and compatible 586 and 686 chipsets) are also
supported.

It's interesting that the shrink-wrapped version is only licensed for boxes with
a maximum of four processors, if my memory servers me correctly the
shrink-wrapped NT 3.51 was licensed for up to 8.  I hear that even Microsoft
mice carry a license agreement forbidding you to attach them to a unit with more
than two processors.  IMHO Windows without a mouse isn't very useful and AFAIK
nobody has passed the logon screen without a mouse or keyboard (or did I miss
some huge development of telepathic communications equipment?).


Christopher


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