[WinMac] NT Installs
Gary Zak(gzak[at]sd61.bc.ca)
Wed, 28 Oct 1998 23:01:18 -0800
I am the Appletalk MacLab administrator in a secondary school which is
about 50-50 Mac-Wintel in four independent labs (a Windows-centric
colleague runs the NT labs). I know very little about NT, but, as we are
soon to move to school-wide Ethernet, and likely with the NT server being
the main server in the school, I would like to learn as much as I can about
potential pitfalls without hurting my brain.
In response to a recent MacMarine posting about an NT install taking a
ridiculously long time (6 hours to intall on an Orange card in a Mac, with
the help of a technician to boot), I inquired of my colleague, Carl, as to
how realistic this situation was. He replied as I have quoted below. I
would appreciate any comments on his experiences and any advice you all may
have for me as I move into this brave new world and embrace the Borg (oops,
sorry, Win-people - that was an autonomic Mac-reaction).
Carl wrote:
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Gary,
When the old IBM network in room 110 was tossed out I set up the new
server with NT Server 3.5 in no more than a couple (<2) hours. This
first install took so long, in part, because I was reading a book page
by page which explained the install. This was my first server install,
period. The other reason why it took so long was because of my
unfamiliarity with things like network protocols and things you may or
may not need to set if you want internet access on the network like IP
addresses, subnet masks, DHCP, DNS, and WINS. I was very impressed with
the ease of the install, although I remained confused about many new
concepts.
Since then I've done complete reinstalls of NTS 3.5, 3.51, and 4.0 on
the server in room 110, NTS 4.0 on the Career Centre server, and
countless installs of NTS 3.5, 3.51 and 4.0 on the server in my home
network. Since I now know what to do it takes an hour or less because of
the slow quad speed CD drives in the servers and my slow typing speed.
I've lost track of the number of NT Workstations 4.0 installs I've done.
These are far simpler than NTS. The actual install of NTWS 4.0 on the
machines in room 110 last April or May took, I think, a fair bit less
than an hour per machine. (Because of the physical abuse to the machines
there were a lot of hardware issues to sort out first, unrelated to the
install.)
If I was given a Mac and a new unformatted hard drive and told to
replace the old drive with the new drive and put the latest OS on the
drive I would fully expect that I would have a hell of a time and that
it would take me far longer than someone familiar with that platform.
However, that does not reflect poorly on either the Mac or the OS.
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Gary Zak
Victoria, BC
gzak@sd61.bc.ca
Yesterday is history, tomorrow is mystery, but today
is God's gift. That's why they call it the "present".
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