From: John Beckett 

Gary Britt  wrote in message
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> For the hell of it, I purchased a copy of NT Workstation 4 from that
> superdealonline site you cited recently.  $24.95.

OMG - Not really a good idea ... unless you have some particular need, and
definitely will not be exposed to any malicious network traffic. However,
for nostalgic reasons, some history follows.

On NT4, you could enter all ones for the CD key (I think - maybe all ones
worked in NT3.51 and was stopped in NT4??).

Quite a big story associated with installing NT4 on a large hard disk. I
forget the definition of "large", but it's quite small by today's
standards. The size of the partition is not relevant - it's the disk.

The NT4 setup does not use the BIOS extensions to allow handling large IDE
disks, and so setup fails. The solution is to use certain drivers from SP4
or later (ISTR you add them by pressing F6 during setup).

The three floppies are for booting setup! They do not have NT4 setup on
them. Back in those days, it was easy to find computers that could not boot
from the CD.

John

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