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Booting to Windows3.1 Novell Network with NT Bootloader

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john.b...@gecm.com

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Jul 23, 1997, 3:00:00 AM7/23/97
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Dear All,

I will be purchasing a Digital Celebris PC with Windows NT4. At
present the company has a Windows3.1 Novell Netware network.

I want to be able to use NT Bootloader to choose whether I
access the network and read Windows3.1 from the network or boot
into WindowsNT. The network boot process loads up some DOS
network drivers and then logs onto the server.

Will I have to have a seperate FAT partition that contains DOS
and then have another partition for WinNT? If so, what is the
best method for achieving this?

Thanks in advance.


John Walker
Development Engineer
GEC-Marconi Avionics
Radar Systems Division
Crewe Toll
Edinburgh

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Steve Taylor

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Aug 4, 1997, 3:00:00 AM8/4/97
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hi john,

yup, you will need at least one fat partition on this system with dos
installed on it, it will also need to be the first partition to support
dos booting....

you can run nt on a fat partition but you loose all of the file system
security of ntfs, your best option is probably to create a small fat
partition and install dos on it, then create a second partition and
install nt to this..


steve - email:st...@imjc.com


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