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First off, you can buy an OEM license - With CD - of NT4/Workstation for about
$42 from the vendors on PriceWatch
<http://www.pricewatch.com>.
In most cases, you can upgrade windoze 98 to NT4 without too many hassles;
however I would recommend backing up the files and reformatting the hard drive,
then reinstalling your apps. You MUST reformat if your Win98 hard drive is
formatted to FAT32. You'll want to reformat to Native Transactional File System
(NTFS) anyway, since that alone is worth the price of admission to NT.
Before installing NT4, disconnect your peripherals (except your printer), run
the Installer, apply Service Pack 6a, THEN bring your peripherals online one at
a time. Then, when all is done, reapply SP6a to "clean out" any rogue DLL's...
This is similar to installing the latest Extensions on your Macs...
Cheers!
Dan Schwartz
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Rick Kent
>Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 1:42 PM
>To: winmac@lists.best.com
>Subject: [WinMac] NT vs 98 on Appleshare IP Network
>
>
>We need some help in deciding whether to change one of our PCs to Windows NT.
>
>A hardware manufacturer we work with has asked us to beta test a new
>Windows NT version of their software package. We would very much
>like to do so, however our production machine currently runs Windows
>98.
>
>We have no objection to buying and installing NT, but we are
>concerned with possible problems which would require teams of
>Microsoft Certified IT Professionals to solve. We are mostly Mac
>people.
>
>We run a small Appleshare IP 6.3 network, with 7 Macs and 4 PCs. The
>PCs all run Windows 98. We share 2 printers over the network: a
>LaserWriter 12/640 and an Epson 1270 with Axis 1440 Ethernet
>connection. (Note that the only way I have been able to get the PCs
>to consistently work with the LaserWriter is to make a direct
>parallel connection to one of the PCs, and then share it out from
>that PC.) The Macs all behave beautifully.
>
>The only software that we run on that production machine (besides the
>manufacturer's) is Photoshop, Illustrator, and CorelDraw,
>occasionally one of the Microsoft Office products, along with Norton
>Antivirus.
>
>Any thoughts from the NT experts. Any bad experiences from the non
>NT experts. Can I just install NT over the Windows 98 system? Will
>everything break? Are there specific ways to avoid problems?
>
>Thanks for your help.
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