Installing NT4 right now..

[urbantechie]

Installing NT4 on my 6th comp now for a mess around..kick around machine . I have so many computers..I dunno how many I have. (not to brag) Well..here are the specs for anyone who is wonderin

PII 350
32MB ram
S3 Virge
Tekram 440BX mobo
Intel PRO 10/100+ NIC
SB AWE64 ISA sound


So..anyone alive out there to talk to me on a pointless sunday night when I have to goto school tomorrow?

 

[DesignDawg]

Why NT4?

Ricky
DesignDawg

 

[urbantechie]

I had Redhat on..but I couldn't figure out how to get my NIC up and running..so GO MS!!! Yee haw!

 

[DesignDawg]

Go MS indeed.... but Why NT4? I assume there is no real reason besides a personal reason not to go with Win98? BTW, GET SOME MORE RAM!!! You may as well have a 486 with only 32 MB in there!

Ricky
DesignDawg

 

[urbantechie]

All my machines are running NT OSes. I'm running Windows 2000 Advanced Server on here this machine and on another machine NT4 Server. Then the other three machines are running 98SE, ME and 95C. I'm all for NT. Anything else is soooo unstable.

 

[DesignDawg]

Well, I'm not AGAINST NT....

I've run NT4 for a couple of years at least, and now all my machines run 2000....
BUt I was just wondering. A lot of people won't run 98 because they have HEARD NT is better, but they really hjave no business running NT. I was just wondering if you were one of those people.

BTW, I run NT because I actually need the kernel for some of my fotware, and to make use of SMP.

Ricky
DesignDawg

 

[urbantechie]

Nope. I'm not one of those people . If I had more ram, i'd run Whistler..but too bad.

 

[lowtech1]

I rather run Win95 on a 486 with 16megs of Ram, instead of your NT4 on a PII~350mhz with 32 megs.

MS sugested a minimum of 12 megs for NT4, but you can't do much with 16megs with minimum Workstaion install. At 32megs, even as a Workstation/Stand-alone Server setup your system will be very slow because of high disk pageing when you open any apps.

I would give the system more ram under NT, or try step it back to Win9.x or Linux.

 

[lowtech1]

Or try a beautiful, elegant & free QNX OS.

 

[noxipoo]

try redhat 6.2 or 7.0

the nic card setup is very easy. especially if you run x windows.

if that isn't easy enough for you, run mandrake, it can't get any easier for linux.

 

[urbantechie]

<< if that isn't easy enough for you, run mandrake, it can't get any easier for linux. >>




Mandrake locks up when I try to install.

 

[urbantechie]

<< MS sugested a minimum of 12 megs for NT4, but you can't do much with 16megs with minimum Workstaion install. At 32megs, even as a Workstation/Stand-alone Server setup your system will be very slow because of high disk pageing when you open any apps. >>




I'm not going to install any apps...its just gonna be a websurfer and a trainer computer for my parents.