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Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Server and Windows NT 4.0 Enterprise Server boot files from the CD, does any brother have them? Can you provide them?
Extracted from the "Windows NT 4.0 Server and Windows NT 4.0 Workstation" boot CD, it is only 2KB, I believe the two are similar.
The above two software I extracted from the NT 4-in-1 CD, I don't know which is the CD boot file, I tried and it didn't work, please help, expert!

The boot sectors of any version of the NT series are the same, and the N-in-1 one is modified.

Originally posted by fujianabc at 2006-5-2 20:50:
The boot sectors of any version of the NT series are the same, and the n-in-one ones are modified.

That's right, I had to import the boot files from other versions of NT4.0 CD-ROMs out of helplessness, and it worked the same!
I found that the boot files of these 4 versions of NT4.0 CD-ROMs are the same, and they are universal in Chinese and English!
Finally, I installed all versions of NT4.0 again.


I also want to ask a question: NT3.X requires 3-4 installation floppy disks to install. Can it be installed with a CD-ROM boot like NT4.0?
You said last time that as long as you enter: winnt.exe /b during installation, you don't need a floppy disk. I tried it and it didn't seem to work. What's wrong?

I once tried to make a bootable CD for Windows NT 3.51 before. After booting to a certain stage, I couldn't find the files.

After thinking carefully, the El Torito standard for CD-ROM booting was proposed in 1995, and Windows NT 3.51 was also released in the first half of 1995. At that time, there were no bootable CDs in the world, so Windows NT 3.x couldn't directly support bootable CDs. It seems that the first version of Windows 95 also had to be booted from a floppy disk first, and then the CD-ROM driver was loaded to install it.

As for the second question, I always install the NT system from DOS like this, and there's no need to make a floppy disk. The /B option for winnt has been effective since Windows NT 3.5, and it's no longer needed starting from Windows 2000. Here are the parameter explanations for winnt /? of Windows NT 3.51:
Installs Windows NT.

WINNT sourcepath] tempdrive] inffile]
] ]

/Ssourcepath
Specifies the source location of Windows NT files.
Must be a full path of the form x:\ or
\\server\share.
The default is the current directory.
/Ttempdrive
Specifies a drive to contain temporary setup files.
If not specified, Setup will attempt to locate a drive for you.
/Iinffile
Specifies the filename (no path) of the setup information file.
The default is DOSNET.INF.
/O Create boot floppies only.
/OX Create boot floppies for CD-ROM or floppy-based installation.
/X Do not create the Setup boot floppies.
/F Do not verify files as they are copied to the Setup boot floppies.
/C Skip free-space check on the Setup boot floppies you provide.
/B Floppyless operation.

The /B means floppyless operation. After copying files under DOS and restarting, it starts the character interface installation stage from the hard disk.

The first CD version of Win95 cannot be booted. I confirmed it personally.
winnt /b is also applicable to NT3.1.

Sometimes you have to use the lock command to lock the C drive to be able to use winnt /b

Originally posted by zyjlxh at 2010-9-24 07:43 PM:
Sometimes you must use the lock command to lock the C drive. Then winnt /b

Only DOS 7.x requires this.
DOS 7.x supports long filenames, while the winnt.exe of NT 3.x does not support them. It needs the lock command to directly read and write the FAT file system.

Originally posted by yksoft1 at 2006-5-4 01:16:
The first CD version of Win95 cannot boot. I confirmed it personally.
winnt /b is also applicable to NT3.1.

The original CD of Win95 OSR2.X also cannot boot from self, but you can add the boot of Win98SE, and their DOS versions are the same.
The boot files of NT4 are not universal with those of XP.

Originally posted by fujianabc at 2010-9-24 23:27:

This is only needed for DOS 7.x.
DOS 7.x supports long filenames, while the winnt.exe in NT 3.x does not support it, and the lock command is needed to directly read and write the FAT file system.

NT4.0 also requires locking the C drive to install under DOS. Also, note that when installing NT/2000 under DOS, you cannot use a WinMe boot disk to boot, but must use a Win98 boot disk to boot, otherwise it will prompt that the Boot Loader cannot be installed. This restriction was removed in XP/2003.