Subj : Win98SE install?
To   : Tom Laermans
From : Christer Jacobsson
Date : Tue Jun 20 2000 06:25 pm

Thursday June 08 2000, Tom Laermans writes to Christer Jacobsson:

 TL> @TAGID: T-TAG 1.20
 TL> @EMAIL: tom.laermans@cabdrivers.com
 TL> Hi Christer ...

 TL> At 06-Jun-00 20:06:26, Christer Jacobsson wrote to Charles Scaglione about
 TL> Win98SE install?...

 CJ>> Well, as I probably won't use 98 for more than the occasional game
 CJ>> and accessing my ADSL modem (until such times that I can get the
 CJ>> hang on how to access it from OS/2), 98 will suffice all right for
 CJ>> my modest needs

 TL> You can run Win9x under VMWare on your NT4 :-) But I guess games are gonna
 TL> be a little sluggish :-/

 TL> On OS/2: Try accessing your ADSL thing as a normal ethernet card, and set
 TL> up IP routing to route all addresses (except the internal lan ones :) to
 TL> that device...

Well, for one thing, my ISP uses dynamic IP adresses, so I wont know my adress 
from "dialup" to "dialup". That means that I must enable lan0 in Warp:s TCPIP 
Configuration notebook, then check Automatic. Under the Automatic checkbox are 
two more: "Using DHCP" and "Also using DDNS". I have Using DHCP checked. Under 
Nameservers, I've put my ISP:s nameservers IP adresses namely 10.0.0.1 and 
10.0.0.2. Domain name I have set to 'telia.com'.

When i reboot after saving these changes, the system stands a little while 
before Desktopen begins to paint: then it spits out an error msg saying that 
DHCPSTRT didn't got any adress or some such crap.

But I ran into more trouble the other day. My new PC DOS 2000 arrived here, and 
I began by installing it over the old PC DOS 7.0 which went just smoothly but 
for the little detail that RAMSETUP still didn't work as it should (the prob 
was a thrashed system.ini in w31 but I didn't know this at that time). 
Frustrated, and with a couple of strong beers on board, I decided to wipe my C: 
and install PC DOS 2000 "virgo intacta" there before adding old programs and 
such things. So I began by doing a XCOPY C:\ I:\DOS-C /S /E /V so as to rescue 
my C: files. After that, I reformatted C: and installed PC DOS 2000 which went 
in as smooth as a warm knife in butter. So far, so good.

Uh-oh! "<Irony> Can't get in my wedding gown! </irony>"

I COULDN'T boot into my NT4 installation any more! When I Xcopied my C: drive 
to a "staging" area on another FAT drive, I missed copying the hidden, system 
and read-only files that existed on my C: before the format. these files are 
now utterly GONE! My NT4 is setup so that the bulk of NT4 sits on a separate, 
NTFS partition while some necessary files sits in the root of my DOS C: 
partition. Worse, I *dont have any NT4 emergency disks!* The *only* thing I 
have is the NT4 Server CD and the installation disks!

Is it possible to revive my NT4 installation, and if so, HOW?



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