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If you want all that tied together, get Lantastic. 10 user going for 80 to 100 on e-bay. Since you are going to be the technician, get dual media NICs and see the difference between cat5 and thinnet (coax). But make sure you use 58a/u for the coax.
You have a good average number, but nowhere near a record.
And while you are at it, why not do some experimentation with multi boot capabilities. Good education. Ed Fair
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You have a good average number, but nowhere near a record.
And while you are at it, why not do some experimentation with multi boot capabilities. Good education. Ed Fair
efair@atlnet.com
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Help increase my knowledge by providing some feedback, good or bad, on any advice I have given.
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Hi Ed, I'll check out those nic suggestions. re: dual booting advice, I did get ahold of a W2K evaluation disk, I loaded it on my 98 machine and it was able to place itself on the same (C
partition that 98 was on.(FAT32). Every thing I read say this is not supposed to be possible, but it was.
I also clean installed it on another machine with NTFS and wiped out the other install so as I can use that machine to install NT4.
From a clean fdisk,(I want to just have NTFS on 1 partition), I have some issues I'm working out with the dual boot options as far as uing FAT vs NTFS. It seems that common practice is to set up a 1 or 2% partition of FAT 16 with 9x, and put NT on the rest, so you can use a 9x start up disk in case of a crash, . But can you use NTFS if you use this method of dual boot? Wouldn't you lose the security features of NTFS if you had FAT ?
And when fdisking, the only first choices seem to be 'setup a primary DOS partition'. I don't understand this because I thought NT wasn't based on DOS ? Does NT with NTFS need to go on a non-DOS partition? And if so, is this just all the remaining non partitioned space on the drive? A little fuzzy on these options. thx.
partition that 98 was on.(FAT32). Every thing I read say this is not supposed to be possible, but it was. I also clean installed it on another machine with NTFS and wiped out the other install so as I can use that machine to install NT4.
From a clean fdisk,(I want to just have NTFS on 1 partition), I have some issues I'm working out with the dual boot options as far as uing FAT vs NTFS. It seems that common practice is to set up a 1 or 2% partition of FAT 16 with 9x, and put NT on the rest, so you can use a 9x start up disk in case of a crash, . But can you use NTFS if you use this method of dual boot? Wouldn't you lose the security features of NTFS if you had FAT ?
And when fdisking, the only first choices seem to be 'setup a primary DOS partition'. I don't understand this because I thought NT wasn't based on DOS ? Does NT with NTFS need to go on a non-DOS partition? And if so, is this just all the remaining non partitioned space on the drive? A little fuzzy on these options. thx.
Forgot to mention , should be lantastic 8.0.
As far as the NT questions, w2k and later, you'll have to get the answers from others. Not my playpen at present. No advice given outside my playpen. Ed Fair
efair@atlnet.com
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As far as the NT questions, w2k and later, you'll have to get the answers from others. Not my playpen at present. No advice given outside my playpen. Ed Fair
efair@atlnet.com
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Help increase my knowledge by providing some feedback, good or bad, on any advice I have given.
CitrixEngineer
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I've come across this idea of having a small FAT partition on NT machines, but the reasoning is fairly arbitrary, AFAICS. Yes, you can boot the machine, but you can't get at any data you've stored in an NTFS partition, unless you have a 3rd-party utility which allows this. You could store rescue disk images - or even a ghost image of the NTFS partition in this FAT partition, allowing you to recover your system in the worst case scenario (all too frequent with NT4x, but I've been running my W2k server since May 2000 without the need for a rebuild.
You wouldn't lose any system security on your NTFS partitions, because NT takes care of all of that. It's only your FAT partition that would be vulnerable, if you ran any NT services from it - which is unlikely.
It's totally possible to have W9x and NT on the same partition - all that is handled by NT's boot.ini. However, the filesystem must be FAT for both to operate.
You're right in thinking NT is not based on DOS - it isn't. However, fdisk is a DOS utility, and only understands FAT partitions of either the 16 or 32-bit varieties. The NT installer will ask you if you wish to Create an NTFS partition in unpartitioned space, or convert an existing FAT partition to NTFS.
I hope this helps
You wouldn't lose any system security on your NTFS partitions, because NT takes care of all of that. It's only your FAT partition that would be vulnerable, if you ran any NT services from it - which is unlikely.
It's totally possible to have W9x and NT on the same partition - all that is handled by NT's boot.ini. However, the filesystem must be FAT for both to operate.
You're right in thinking NT is not based on DOS - it isn't. However, fdisk is a DOS utility, and only understands FAT partitions of either the 16 or 32-bit varieties. The NT installer will ask you if you wish to Create an NTFS partition in unpartitioned space, or convert an existing FAT partition to NTFS.
I hope this helps
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