Win98 Questions
Gavin Picknell
Hi,
I was wondering if someone could answer a couple of questions I have about
the soon to be unleashed :) Win98.
First, is FAT32 mandatory?
Second, is there any support for installing Win98 onto a network server and
(1) installing it onto workstations from the server install and (2) actually
running win98 from the network server (as you could do with the original
win95)?
Any info/pointers etc welcomed.
Cheers,
-Gav.
Lotrat
>Gavin Picknell wrote:
>I was wondering if someone could answer a couple of questions I have about
>the soon to be unleashed :) Win98.
>First, is FAT32 mandatory?
Nope. FAT32 is great if the system is Win 98 or NT 5.0. FAT 32 won't work
with other OS's. If your computer is configured with another operating system
as well as Windows 98 (dual boot), you cannot convert drive C to FAT32, even if
the other operating system is installed on a different drive. However,
computers that run Windows 98 can share FAT32 drives across a network. Just
like any other FAT drive, FAT32 drives are accessible by MS-DOS, Windows 3.x,
the original version of Windows 95, and Windows NT clients. Because MS-DOS 7.1
(the version included with Windows 98) fully supports FAT32, you can run most
MS-DOS-mode games and applications from FAT32 drives.
>Second, is there any support for installing Win98 onto a network server and
>(1) installing it onto workstations from the server install and
This may be tricky since Win98 reboots twice during the install and network
connections will be lost. Every machine I've installed Win 95 (and soon Win
98) on has a directory with all the install files. This comes in handy when
changing hardware or adding Windows componets. Copy all the install files to
your harddrive and install from there. Besides, it's faster too!
>(2) actually running win98 from the network server (as you could do with the
original win95)?
This is dumb. How does your machine boot if the OS is on a server?
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Lot...@aol.com
Gavin Picknell
lot...@aol.com (Lotrat) writes:
>>Gavin Picknell wrote:
>>I was wondering if someone could answer a couple of questions I have about
>>the soon to be unleashed :) Win98.
>>First, is FAT32 mandatory?
>Nope. FAT32 is great if the system is Win 98 or NT 5.0. FAT 32 won't work
>with other OS's. If your computer is configured with another operating system
>as well as Windows 98 (dual boot), you cannot convert drive C to FAT32, even if
>the other operating system is installed on a different drive. However,
>computers that run Windows 98 can share FAT32 drives across a network. Just
>like any other FAT drive, FAT32 drives are accessible by MS-DOS, Windows 3.x,
>the original version of Windows 95, and Windows NT clients. Because MS-DOS 7.1
>(the version included with Windows 98) fully supports FAT32, you can run most
>MS-DOS-mode games and applications from FAT32 drives.
Sounds good, thanks for the info.
>>Second, is there any support for installing Win98 onto a network server and
>>(1) installing it onto workstations from the server install and
>This may be tricky since Win98 reboots twice during the install and network
>connections will be lost. Every machine I've installed Win 95 (and soon Win
>98) on has a directory with all the install files. This comes in handy when
>changing hardware or adding Windows componets. Copy all the install files to
>your harddrive and install from there. Besides, it's faster too!
True, but installing from the network allows for mass installations with
little intervention from the administrator (if done right) - Win95 was
not bad in this resepct.
>>(2) actually running win98 from the network server (as you could do with the
>original win95)?
>This is dumb. How does your machine boot if the OS is on a server?
By using a network card with a BootROM, we have over 250 PC's operating
this way - works fine (mostly :) ).
Cheers,
-Gav.
Jim Dafnis
Does'nt booting from the server cause an enormous amount of network traffic?
Hard drives are so large and cheap these days what is the advantage of
booting from the server?