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From the previous post, windows is cdrom is in the drive.

Power up the box with the windows cd.

Dos windows nt part of the install

Let the server boot of the windows nt cdom rom, when you see the message ‘configuring windows’, start pressing the f6 key and keep doing so until the screen turns blue and shows the insert driver disk message appears – we basically have to ensure that windows stops setup, loads the driver and continues with the driver loaded else the setup will fail as it’s missing the driver.

Press S ensuring the driver disk is in the floppy drive, press enter, select the driver you want in this case its compaq drive array for windows nt

Windows now copies the driver into memory, and continues, loading the normal drivers as well

Windows setup screen now loads

Enter to run setup

Press enter again confirming that you’re loading the compaq drive array driver

A message will probably appear about cylinders, press enter, it’s fine

Read the license agreement, pressing page down and then f8 to agree

The summary screen appears, I’ve set my keyboard to british and pressed enter to continue

Now the drive appears on screen, it reads 8gb, but can only create a 4044mb partition, that’s fine, press enter

Format the drive ntfs

Select or change your path then press enter

Do I want a check disk to run, fine, enter

Setup now runs and copies files

NT setup copies the files, then asks you to remove the cdrom and floppy disks, it then reboots a few times and converts the new drive to ntfs then runs

Windows nt setup part

NT prompts for the cdrom, put in the cdrom wait and press enter

Click next, and enter company name, and username

Select the licensing type

Enter servername I’m calling it Gerald

Enter password

Choose to create a recovery disk – no don’t need it for this test

Select the components needed

Now we do the network install.

Wired network screen appears, click next

Select if you want IIS – I don’t so untick the box

Install driver, click have disk and I put in my driver disk

Select protocol, I select TCP/IP and untick the other one

Select services, I’m adding SNMP and Simple TCP/IP services also network monitor agent

You’ve finished, click next.

Setup now runs and completes and reboots

Install SP6

Insert your windows nt4 service pack cdrom

Run service pack 6 update.exe to install the service pack and restart the server

Install drivers

Insert your Compaq Smartstart 5.5 cdrom

Go to: cdrom drive (d:)
d:\cpqsupsw\ntscp

run bp000096.cmd – this installs all compaq drivers for nt4

Or run the setup, but the cmd file’s really quick

The bp000098 runs and calls a command prompt to install each component, each component will run, then the dos window closes, when it does, reboot the server.

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