Subj : Win98SE install?
To   : Jeff Guerdat
From : Christer Jacobsson
Date : Wed Jul 05 2000 04:19 pm

Saturday July 01 2000, Jeff Guerdat writes to Christer Jacobsson:

 JG> On 06-23-00, Christer Jacobsson said to Jeff Guerdat:

 CJ>> But on another tack.... When I've installed NT4 anew and
 CJ>> brought it up to fixpack #6a level. I'm about to get a new
 CJ>> box here. Is there any way that I can "lift over" my NT4
 CJ>> installation onto the new box without doing a total
 CJ>> reinstall from scratch?

 JG> Yep but it's a bit kludgy.  Install yet another bare installation of NT
 JG> into, say, WINNT.NEW so you have access to the NTFS partitions and copy
 JG> the old over the new.  Fix up C:\Boot.ini to point to the right files and
 JG> reboot.  Now that you're back into familiar territory, delete the bare NT
 JG> (WINNT.NEW).  I'd reinstall SP6 if the stuff in Program Files may have
 JG> been overwritten, just to be safe.  If you install it on a partition that
 JG> does not have an existing Program Files directory, just delete that one,
 JG> too.

Well, my problem here is that my new box won't have an Adaptec SCSI-adapter but 
a Tekram/SymBios adapter instead. So if I go as you adviced, I would first 
install a virgin NT4 on my new box in the directory WINNT.NEW. Then I would 
restore my old setup into the directory WINNT on the same partition.

Where do I go from there? The virgin installation would have the correct SCSI 
adapter and VGA video whilst the old installation would have the Adaptec 
adapter and MGA Millenium-II configured. OK, I could reset my old installation 
to VGA before saving it to tape, but the saved copy would still have the 
'wrong' SCSI adapter configured. How do I go around this roadblock?


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