Re: [WinMac] ERD with no CD

Tim Scoff(tscoff[at]pitt.edu)
Fri, 20 Aug 1999 13:36:06 -0500

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> Greetings listers,
>
> We've got a couple of old 486's running as primary and backup domain
> controllers (I know, they suck, don't ask).
>
> Anyway, neither one of them have CD ROMS in them and the BIOS doesn't
> seem to want me to install them either.
>
> Here's my quandary, if/when something happens (i.e. BSOD - which it did
> recently) and I run Repair NT from the WinNT start up disks, the repair
> fails because it can't find a CD.
>
> Aside from junking the 486's or a fresh install, is there any way around
> this?

      You should be able to create a network boot floppy for them that maps
to the i386 directory from the NT CD ROM if you have it shared on another
server. Then run winnt.exe from the network share and choose to do an
Emergency Repair instead of an installation.

      I've never done this, but I'm pretty sure that it's possible.

Tim Scoff
casper@nb.net

"Trust the computer industry to shorten "Year 2000" to Y2K. It was this
kind of thinking that caused the problem in the first place."

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