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From: brad@huey.Jpl.Nasa.GOV (Brad Hines)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: NT Install hangs & CIS question
Keywords: NT install
Date: 31 Aug 92 21:33:24 GMT
Reply-To: brad@huey.Jpl.Nasa.GOV
Organization: JPL Spatial Interferometry Group

Compuserve question first...  Is some sort of support available
via compuserve mail, or does everything happen in the forums
there?  In other words, since we Internet folk can e-mail to
compuserve, is there a userid that I can mail my problems to
(and thus avoid having to get a compuserve account)?


Install problem - I am running the standard NT install stuff,
and shortly after starting the character-based part, the system
hangs during the "Examining disk configuration..." part.  The
system won't respond to anything but a hard reset.  Does this sound
familiar to anyone?

Here are the particulars of my system configuration:

386/33 w/ Opti chipset
AMI BIOS dated 6/1/92
16 MB RAM
Ultrastor 12F ESDI disk controller w/ Track Remapping on
676 MB Maxtor disk
Adaptec 1542B SCSI controller (w/ BIOS disabled)
Toshiba TXM3301B CD-ROM drive
Standard VGA card (Orchid Prodesigner+/512K - ET3000)
No network


I've tried virtually everything I can think of with the SCSI adapter,
with no change in behavior (bios enabled/disabled, parity on/off on both
the CD-ROM and the adapter).  I can read the CD successfully under DOS.

I've tried both Express and Custom install with the same results.

My disk is partitioned as follows at the moment:
  1)  DOS 5.0           ~65 MB    C:
  2)  Extended DOS      ~500 MB   D: - I: logical drives
  3)  OS/2 boot manager ~1 MB
  4)  OS/2 2.0          ~99 MB    HPFS

I used DOS fdisk to change the active partition from 3 to 1 just to
make sure nothing funky was going on with the OS/2 boot manager.  What
I want to do is remove the OS/2 partitions and replace them with a
single NT partition (or else just erase OS/2 and install NT on the
HPFS partition without repartitioning); I don't think I can do any of
this with dos2nt, since there's no way to make any more than 2
partitions visible to DOS.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: jkf@Franz.COM (Sean Foderaro)
Subject: Boca Tseng 4000 svga driver
Organization: Franz Inc., Berkeley, CA
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 05:07:30 GMT


 The NT distribution includes three Tseng 4000 drivers which permit you 
to run at 1024x768.  None of those drivers work for my Boca svga card
with the Tseng 4000 chip (An image appears on the screen but the refresh 
rate is off.)   I compared the drivers and there are very few differences, 
so I suspect that just a few parameters are being changed.   I'd like to
know if anyone has a ts4000 driver for the boca board.  [I don't have
Compu$erve access so I can't check there]

 What is strange is that for Windows 3.1 I use the ts4000 drivers distributed
by Tseng labs so the boca board must be pretty vanilla.   Why does NT 
require different drivers?

    thanks,

        john foderaro

        jkf@franz.com





 
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: doc@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (Jeffrey Smith)
Subject: Re: minimum requirements for NT
Organization: North Carolina State University
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 15:52:06 GMT

gilem@aix.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile) writes:

>1) is it really necessary to have 12M to run NT, or can you do it in 8
    
    Yes it will run under 8 but it is very slow...

>2) i know that you need a CD-ROM to install NT.  I have access to 
>an apple CD-ROM drive to read it, is it possible to use this to 
>install NT, and if so, what type of SCSI controller would I need
>.             

>3) when are more svga drivers coming out?

>gilem@rpi.edu
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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: mba@tandon.com (Michael Ben-Ari (mba@tandon.com))
Subject: Re: Parallel-to-SCSI support
Organization: Tandon Corporation, Moorpark, CA
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 01:10:17 GMT

In article <1992Aug29.075449.10998@odin.corp.sgi.com> hargrove@bee.corp.sgi.com (Mark Hargrove) writes:
>I'm trying to install NT on my Toshiba 4400SXC laptop via a Trantor
>scsi-to-parallel adaptor and an NEC CDR-74 CDROM drive. The drive
>works perfectly from DOS5.0, and the manual install process for NT
>also worked fine.  Once NT loads, I cannot figure out how the heck
>to get the CDROM drive recognizable again.  I think I've looked at
>every single .ini file I can find; nothing looks reasonable. Naturally,
>I can't RTFM, since they're on the darn CD-ROM!
>
>Anybody have a clue?

The HW Compatibility List (which should have come with your CD-ONLY
version of the Win32 Pre_release) does not list the Trantor 
SCSI->Parallel adaptor as supported....  Maybe soon?

>
>BTW, I'm nearly Windows-illiterate (I live primarily in the Unix/X world),
>so if you assume I know nothing about what I'm doing I will not be
>offended (since truth is not offensive) :-)
>


-Mike

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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: ronald@opal.cs.tu-berlin.de (Ronald Hindmarsh)
Subject: Can I port a UNIX X11 app to NT?
Summary: Want to port graphics editor from X11 to NT
Keywords: port unix x11
Organization: Techn. University of Berlin, Germany
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 13:32:47 GMT


I would like to port our CIF (Caltech Intermediate Form)
VLSI Layout editor, currently running under SunOS and X11, to NT.

The source consists of about 70 .c and .h files (23 k lines).
Our editor invokes another program, using pipes to display
its output on the screen. Some UNIX functions I found in the source:

Procedure	"whatis" output
execv()		execv (3V)   	- execute a file
signal()	signal (3V)	- simplified software signal facilities
pipe() 		pipe (2V)	- create an interprocess communication channel
dup2() 		dup2 (2V)	- duplicate a descriptor
sleep()		sleep (3V)	- suspend execution for interval

a) Is it possible to port this to NT, whithout making a megatask of it?

b) Is the current NT-release sufficient, or should I wait for the 'beta'?


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: rrohbeck@kboeng.enet.dec.com ()
Subject: Re: Problems installing NT (from Netware 3.11)
Reply-To: rrohbeck@kboeng.enet.dec.com ()
Organization: Digital Equipment Int. GmbH
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 16:56:49 GMT


In article <1992Sep3.131513.7661@bohra.cpg.oz.au>, daavid@bohra.cpg.oz.au (Daavid Turnbull) writes:
>It is my understanding from what was said at the conference that NT can be 
>loaded from a CD rom drive mounted in a Novell Netware host.  The default
>installation gives no indication of how this might be achieved.
>
>If it is possible could some one in the know please post me a few clues.
>
>Thanks in advance, daavid
In my first attempt, I used the DOS2NT install over a NetWare Lite connection
(from the CD ROM hanging off the Soundblaster in my wife's game machine :-),
and it worked, though I had a few minor glitches I can't explain.
Quick instructions:
Make sure you have supported hardware:
	Standard VGA (there are ET4000, V7 and XGA hires drivers)
	Standard AT drive preferred, some SCSI adapters supported, e.g.
	 Adapted 1540/1542, WD7000EX, Future Domain
	Serial mouse or bus mouse (tricky, must be absolutely compatible.
	 Mine doesn't work)
	8 MB of RAM absolute minimum, MS says 12, more is better.
	386 from C step or 486 SX/DX.
Purge the root of anything not required, especially .BAT files and executtables
other than COMMAND.COM. Have a CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT for DOS. 
Make sure you have at least 70 MB free.
Recommended: Defragment your hard disk.
Make the network connection. Go to the CD ROM DOS drive.
cd \dos2nt
dos2nt C: 
will copy the whole stuff to your hard disk and install the Flexboot.
Be patient (especially over a cheap network and a cheap CD ROM drive, as in my
case :-)
Make sure all files from the CD have arrived, especially everything under
the SYSTEM subdirectory (I had a problem here.)
Edit C:\BOOT.INI (change \nt to \winnt) and
c:\winnt\(don't know now)\registry.ini (See comments there).
Reboot and see what happens. Be patient and expect two reboots.
Hope this helps and I didn't forget anything vital.
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From: alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks)
Subject: Re: OSF DCE on NT?
Date: 04 Sep 92 01:28:48 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <1992Sep2.102740.1@woods.ulowell.edu> perezc@woods.ulowell.edu writes:
>Hello,
>
>	I'm not familiar with NT but I was just wondering to what extent
>OSF's Distributed Computing Environment (DCE) is to be supported by NT?
>Beyond the threads and RPCs is the Distributed File Services,  DTS, Security
>Service etc. supported too?  Does anyone out there know anything about this
>on more deatail?

In Windows NT we've included an OSF DCE compatible RPC - its not OSF's
technology or code, its ours - but it does interoperate at the IDL file
and on the wire with other OSF DCE RPC systems

The preferred PC Network defined in OSF DCE is Lan Manager, and Windows NT
is a Lan Manager client and server.

The threads in Windows NT are not based on the threads package in DCE,
rather the threads are built into the kernel, and are executed pre-emptively
and distributed accross all available local processors

Microsoft has not made any other statements about supporting other
elements of OSF's DCE or DME - we'll wait until they're fully defined, and
then we'll see how well the market supports them. In the meantime we're
moving ahead writing an infrastructure that can communicate with any
directory service, accept any distributed file system, talk to any
store and forward messageing system, etc, etc. If other OSF DCE or
DME pieces become well supported, they can certainly be supported by
Windows and Windows NT

-- Alistair
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: gilem@aix.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile)
Subject: NT with soundblaster pro
Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 20:05:36 GMT

Has anyone actually installed NT with the soundblaster pro
cd interface?  I have found a good deal for the package,
and am considering buying it instead of a cd rom drive
and a scsi card.

mike
gilem@rpi.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: Problems installing NT
From: dueck@brandonu.ca
Date: 1 Sep 92 14:27:34 CST
Organization: Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada

In article <478@highett.mel.dbce.csiro.au>, steveo@mel.dbce.csiro.au (Stephen Oakes) writes:
> Hi there,
> 	Having attended the Windows Developer's conference in Sydney, I
> 	rushed back eagerly to install NT and try to write a few programmes.
> 
> 	But the installation procedure didn't work.  In fact, we have two
> 	(almost) identical machines here at work and we get the same problem
> 	on both of them.
> 
> 	The machines are 50MHz 486's with Orchid Fahrenheit Video card,
> 	NEC CD-ROM, IDE HArd disk formatted into two partitions.
> 
> 	The installation procedure just gets to the white on blue screen,
> 	then comes up with the following:
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Windows NT Setup
> 
>  TRAP 0000000E  ============= PAGE FAULT ================
> 
> ** At linear address E84539C2
> 
>  tr=0028 cr0=80000011 cr2=E84539C2 cr3=00030000
>  gdt limit=03FF base=00036000 idt limit=07FF base=00036400
> 
>  cs:eip=0008:801033D7 ss:esp=0010:00077C64 errcode=0000
>  flags=00010046 NoCy Zr IntDis Down TrapDis
>  eax=00000000 ebx=00000000 ecx=00090084 edx=00077900 ds=0010 es=0000
>  edi=80117248 esi=00000000 epb=00077CBD cr0=80000011 fs=0030 gs=0000
> 
> 
> 
>  Reading inf file  \txtsetup.inf
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
>  I tried the manual installation, and that seemed to work OK.
> 
> 
I had the same problem on a 486/33 with AMI bios. I found a solution
in a posting from this news groups some time back.

For my machine, disabling ROM BIOS shadowing (F000-FFFF) worked.

If it doesn't work for you, try also disabling external caching and
video bios shadowing.

BTW[1], we had a 386/40 that wouldn't run setup for Windows 3.1. Disabling
all shadowing and caching allowed setup to run to completion.

BTW[2], a friend of mine has a problem with an Adaptec 1542B SCSI controller.
It won't work unless he disables hidden DMA refresh.

Gery Dueck
dueck@brandonu.ca
From: jbs@Congruent.COM (Jeffrey Siegal)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: Re: minimum requirements for NT
Date: 1 Sep 92 18:09:59 GMT
Organization: Congruent Corporation; New York, NY
In-reply-to: act@softserver.canberra.edu.au's message of 31 Aug 92 06:32:51 GMT

In article <1992Aug31.063251.20363@csc.canberra.edu.au> act@softserver.canberra.edu.au (Cyclops) writes:

   No you can do it in 8 megs, BUT you cannot run the graphics install as it
   slaps your wrists and say that you have to have 12meg and aborts.  The
   dos2nt.bat doesn't check.  In 8 megs it probably runs a bit slow, but it
   goes.

I tried to use NT with 8MB.  In addition to it being *very* slow, I
also had many unexplained failures, hangs, crashes--especially when
trying to use the development tools.  All the problems went away when
I went to 12MB.  Microsoft claims that the final release will run in
8MB, but the current release requires 12MB.

Jeffrey Siegal
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: act@softserver.canberra.edu.au (Cyclops)
Subject: Re: minimum requirements for NT
Organization: University of Canberra
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 92 06:32:51 GMT

In article <sntywc-@rpi.edu> gilem@aix.rpi.edu (Michael R. Gile) writes:
>1) is it really necessary to have 12M to run NT, or can you do it in 8

No you can do it in 8 megs, BUT you cannot run the graphics install as it
slaps your wrists and say that you have to have 12meg and aborts.  The
dos2nt.bat doesn't check.  In 8 megs it probably runs a bit slow, but it
goes. Also while the graphic install make you create a 20meg swap file the
dos2nt way only wants 15megs - again there is probably a downside when you
need a bit of virtual grey matter.

>2) i know that you need a CD-ROM to install NT.  I have access to 
>an apple CD-ROM drive to read it, is it possible to use this to 
>install NT, and if so, what type of SCSI controller would I need

The deal is that the NT graphic install only has drivers for those CDROMS
listed in the Hardware Compatibilty List.  If you can otherwise mount your
CD-ROM drive as a DOS volume then you are able to do the cheap and nasty
batch file install. In this latter case you may need to edit the boot.ini
file which appears in your root directory, particularly if you install on
D:.  You will need to change \nt refs to \winnt refs and change c: to
<whatever>:.  Note I copied all the files to a unix box and PC-NFS mounted
them and ran the batch install that way. PS if you use an apple(wash my mouth
out) to copy the files up in this way it may stuff the files names!!

>3) when are more svga drivers coming out?

dunno



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From: jason@alpha.ee.ufl.edu (Jason Nadrowski)
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject: NT Compatibility
Keywords: read me
Date: 27 Aug 92 17:29:02 GMT
Organization: EE Dept at UF

Is there an updated hardware compatibility list?  If there is could you tell me
where I could get it.

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From: jason@alpha.ee.ufl.edu (Jason Nadrowski)
Subject: Some more misc stuff concerning NT
Organization: EE Dept at UF
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 19:58:08 GMT

Two more things concerning NT.

1.  Can I run the SDK and C 7.0 off the CD ROM?

2.  Can someone please tell me where I can get a COMPILED ghostscript, so that
    I can read the postscript documentation.

Thank you in advance,

Jason.
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: act@softserver.canberra.edu.au (Cyclops)
Subject: Re: Some more misc stuff concerning NT
Organization: University of Canberra
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 06:09:27 GMT

jason@alpha.ee.ufl.edu (Jason Nadrowski) writes:
>Two more things concerning NT.
>
>1.  Can I run the SDK and C 7.0 off the CD ROM?

Someone else for this one.

>2.  Can someone please tell me where I can get a COMPILED ghostscript, so that
>    I can read the postscript documentation.

A few for starters(Use Archie if you want the rest). NB Remember to get the
fonts file too, something like ghostscript-fonts-2.5msdos.tar.Z.  The file
contains a gs.exe, a gs386.exe and a gswin.exe.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: kevin@edscom.demon.co.uk (Kevin Broadey)
Subject: Re: Where do I get the NT manuals?
Organization: EDS-Scicon, Milton Keynes, UK
	<1992Sep03.171851.24995@microsoft.com>
Distribution: comp
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 13:40:14 GMT

>>>>> In article <1992Sep03.171851.24995@microsoft.com>, "Michael" ==
>>>>> michaelw@microsoft.com (Michael Winser) writes:

    Michael> In article
    Michael> <KEVIN.92Sep1165204@runningbear.edscom.demon.co.uk>
    Michael> kevin@edscom.demon.co.uk (Kevin Broadey) writes:

    Kevin> A colleague of mine went to the European Developers
    Kevin> Conference in Brussels, Belgium in July and came back
    Kevin> clutching a couple CD-ROMs and a sheaf of papers.  He also
    Kevin> put business cards in 3 boxes, labelled "Win an NT T-shirt",
    Kevin> "documentation" and "slides".

    Michael> All attendees will receive a fulfillment from their local
    Michael> sub for the printed manuals.  The slides from some of the
    Michael> other speakers (DEC, Olivetti, Oracle) and some corrected
    Michael> slides from some MS speakers will also be sent to all
    Michael> attendees.  Note this only applies to the attendees.  If
    Michael> your colleague put *your* business card in the box, you're
    Michael> not going to get anything.

He definitely put his own card in the boxes.

Any idea when we can expect delivery?

BTW I've found the compiler/linker/etc documentation on the CD-ROM, in
mstools\doc\tools.  The 4.5M chapter 10 seems to be giving my printer a
headache!

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From: srawson@z.eecs.umich.edu (Stephen Rawson)
Subject: WinNT and NetWare:  How will they work together?
Keywords:  Novell, NetWare, Network, Windows 
Organization: University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 17:04:14 GMT

Can anyone clear up the question of how Windows NT will interact
with other network operating systems?  We are running a fairly
typical Netware 386 ethernet network, with 3 file servers and 
over 100 386-based workstations.  The question is, if we decide to
run Windows NT as our network operating system (i.e. on the file
servers) will it be possible to still run Netware 386 to handle 
file and print services?  Is Windows NT supposed to completely
replace all existing network operating systems (including Lan
Manager, Banyan, Novell, etc) or does it coexist with them somehow,
sort of the way Windows 3.1 coexists with MS-DOS?

We have tried to get an answer to this question from both Microsoft
and Novell, but so far have been unsuccessful.  Any insight would be
much appreciated.

Thanks,  Steve Rawson
srawson@beach.utmb.edu
srawson@z.eecs.umich.edu 
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From: alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks)
Subject: Re: X sever for NT?
Date: 25 Aug 92 17:30:49 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation
Distribution: na

In article <1992Aug22.153008.22131@csi.uottawa.ca> duwors@csi.uottawa.ca (Robert J. Du Wors) writes:
>Are there any tentative X server ports floating around?  At least the Xlib
>library for stand alone development would be sufficient.

Digital Equip have demoed their Windows NT version of "eXcursion" and NCD
(formerly GSS/Spectrographics) have demoed their Windows NT X-Server

I know of two other companies that have also started porting their X-Servers,
but they haven't made any public announcements

If there are more, please let me know - I'm tracking them -- Alistair
Newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
From: rion@Ingres.COM (Rion Cassidy (x3357) OGT)
Subject: Re: Experiment in booting NT
Reply-To: rion@Ingres.COM (Rion Cassidy )
Organization: Ask Computer Systems Inc., Ingres Division, Alameda CA 94501
Date: 2 Sep 92 01:59:11 GMT

I posted this before, but a lot of people just tune in for a quick question
and didn't see it the first time.  The flexboot question keeps coming up
so here's the answer again:



It's a relatively simple matter to get the boot sector back in the right 
place, but the files you'll need are on the NT CD, not on your hard disk.  I 
suggest that you put them in a FAT partition NOW so that you can get things 
fixed quickly after a disk crash.  Even if you can reinstall NT quickly, the 
configuration can be very time consuming.

On the NT CD, go to the directory \dos2nt\install.  You will need the 
following files:

saveboot.sec
ntboot.sec
insert.sec
debug.exe

Create a batch file that contains the following:

ren bootsec.dos btsecdos.bak
debug < saveboot.sec
debug ntboot.sec < insert.sec

This similar to what "NT2DOS.BAT" does, but obviously we want to skip copying 
all those files.

This worked for me and saved the time and trouble of having to reinstall all 
of NT again.  Keep in mind that this is designed to work ONLY where the files 
are all there, but the boot sector is misplaced.

I guess the good folks at MicroSoft forgot about people's disks crashing and 
didn't think to provide this batch file.

Rion Cassidy
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