Re: [WinMac] RE: Dan S' gripes

Jeroen Camstra(jeroenc[at]bigfoot.com)
Wed, 23 Dec 1998 14:41:21 +0100

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At 20:24 22-12-98 -0500, Thomas Kase wrote:
>> > 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.
>
>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 ;-)

Please do.... ;-)

What Daryll says is true. If your PC-BIOS and/or SCSI-BIOS supports it, you
can boot from any bootable CD, like the original NT 4 CD.

>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.

This is what I call "nonsense". It's the original NT 4 CD-ROM I use, and it
has nothing to do with 'custom-burned' or 'one machine config only'.
Booting from the CD has the same results as the 3-disk-boot. The NT 4 CD
boots on any PC with an up-to-date BIOS (and they have been around for a
few years now).

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

Doesn't sound familiar. It almost seems like you run another NT than we
do.... ;-)

With regards,

Jeroen

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