Re: [WinMac] RE: Dan S' gripes

thomas kase(thomas[at]accessio.com)
Tue, 22 Dec 1998 20:24:59 -0500

> Subject: Re: [WinMac] RE: Dan S' gripes
> From: "Darryl Lee" <lee@darryl.com>
> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 09:35:27 -0800 (PST)
>
> > Spend some time thinking about a bootable CD for NT instead Dan.
> > Perhaps it's on your Christmas wish list this year? Just don't hold your
> > breath. Not even NT5 is scheduled with that.
>
> Um. No. No no no. NT 4.0 is a bootable CDs. Presumably 5.0
> will be too. It's a BIOS thang. If the BIOS of your motherboard
> and/or SCSI/IDE controller supports it (and nearly every PC in the
> past couple of years does), you can boot from the NT CD.
>
> Yeeesh, and you're admonishing _Dan_ for not doing research?

see below ;-) the info Dan asked for is EASY to find, five miutes
with a search engine will give you the stuff I wrote.

The bootable CD info (if true) is something my in-house NT guru
dismisses as "nonsense" - his words - not that I wouldn't be happy
to finally prove him wrong about something ;-)

> (Hey, i've griped about non-bootable CDs for Windows for ages, but my
> friend finally set me straight. PCs are _finally_ coming around on
> this...)

The only bootable CDs for NT that I've heard of have been custom-burns
for pretty much one machine config only. Nothing that'd run on multiple
machines the way a MacOS CD (or Norton CD etc.) will run on just about
any PowerMac from a 6100/66 all the way to a G3/366.

We're a MS Developer shop (universal level) with all the Japanese add-ons
and I have yet to see anything like that from MS - and we have hundreds if
not thousands of CDs from MS. (BTW, they will offer a DVD option soon,
according to the grapevine.)

So, if there is an offical MS-released bootable CD for general NT use, I'll
happily stand corrected - I sure don't claim to know all that MS is up to ;-)
I just see what they send us..

And we could sure do with a bootable CD for the periodic rebuilds that NT
needs to stay happy...

Thomas Kase

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