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Installing Microsoft Windows NT, Insert the Windows NT CD-ROM into the external CD-ROM

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For details on how to use the Software Selections CD, refer to its help. Installing Microsoft Windows NT Before installing Windows NT, do the following: Read the Windows NT installation guide. If you plan to use OS/2 Warp with Windows NT, you need to use the OS/2 Warp Boot Manager. For more information, see the Web site. http://www.ibm.com/thinkpad To install Windows NT using an external CD-ROM drive, do the following. Note: If you have an external CD-ROM drive that connects under a DOS environment, you can install Windows NT in DOS. 1 Insert the Windows NT CD-ROM into the external CD-ROM drive. 2 Go to the CD-ROM drive; then go to the \I386 directory. For example, if your CD-ROM drive letter is D, go to D:\I386 3 At the command prompt, type WINNT and press Enter. For example, D:\I386>WINNT Follow the instructions on the screen. If your computer does not have a CD-ROM drive, use a network server, you can install Windows NT on multiple computers by first copying the Windows NT master source files to a shared drive on a network server. After connecting your computer to a network, such as with the DOS LAN requester, you can install the files from the network server to your computer at the DOS command prompt. For more information, refer to the installation guide of Windows NT, Windows NT Version 4 Service Pack 3, or Windows NT Version 4 Service Pack 4. 96 IBM ThinkPad 570 Online Book

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For details on how to use the Software Selections CD, refer to its
help.
Installing Microsoft Windows NT
Before installing Windows NT, do the following:
Read the Windows NT installation guide.
If you plan to use OS/2 Warp with Windows NT, you need to use
the OS/2 Warp Boot Manager.
For more information, see the
Web site.
To install Windows NT using an external CD-ROM drive, do the
following.
Note:
If you have an external CD-ROM drive that connects under a
DOS environment, you can install Windows NT in DOS.
1
Insert the Windows NT CD-ROM into the external CD-ROM
drive.
2
Go to the CD-ROM drive; then go to the
\I386
directory.
For example, if your CD-ROM drive letter is D, go to
D:\I386
3
At the command prompt, type
WINNT
and press
Enter
.
For example,
D:\I386>WINNT
Follow the instructions on the screen.
If your computer does not have a CD-ROM drive, use a network
server, you can install Windows NT on multiple computers by first
copying the Windows NT master source files to a shared drive on a
network server.
After connecting your computer to a network, such
as with the DOS LAN requester, you can install the files from the
network server to your computer at the DOS command prompt.
For more information, refer to the installation guide of Windows NT,
Windows NT Version 4 Service Pack 3, or Windows NT Version 4
Service Pack 4.
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IBM ThinkPad 570 Online Book