From: Robert Comer 

NT4 didn't have USB drivers, but some USB controller manufacturers made
drivers for their cards, but that wouldn't help you in a VM.

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Bob Comer


On Wed, 09 May 2007 15:21:41 -0400, Gary Britt
 wrote:

>Frank, thanks for all the good advice.  The SP6a isn't slip streamed its a
>second CD.  So I imagine the install CD is plain original NT4.  Is the no
>USB a limitation in NT4 or is that a limitation in the virtual environment?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Gary
>
>Frank Haber wrote:
>> Since I've just played with this (with SBS4/4.5, which is NT4).....
>>
>> The NT boot partition must be entirely within the first 8GB.  It doesn't
>> have to be the first.  But the BIOS must inherently support 8GB
>> partitions, if you don't want trouble later.  With no SPs, the boot
>> volume should be >4MB. All this varies wildly for SCSI and RAID,
>> depending on SP and whether your SCSI setup needs a floppy or not.  SCSI
>> boots first, unless you have a late SP and/or a magic machine BIOS.
>>
>> If the install files are truly SP6a (slipstreaming didn't happen until
>> later, so the creation process was extremely laborious for anyone but an
>> OEM), you can have 8GB system and big secondary/extended partitions.
>> Possibly only SP4 is required for this.
>>
>> There were subtle changes to NTFS over the service packs, so get up
>> there as fast as possible with your patching, and fercryingoutloud don't
>> try to defrag with old utils or other suicidal stuff.  I don't believe
>> you got a defrag with NT4; in any case, everyone used Diskkeeper.  V5 or
>> above should be fine.  Any Perfect Disk likewise.
>>
>> Everyone likewise used third-party backup.  Stick with simple-video
>> programs. Luckily, your virtualized drivers will likely be better than
>> half the ones people had to use, back in the day.
>>
>> Make sure you have boot floppies that work.  Make sure the floppy drive
>> boots DOS.  If you have RAID, make two copies of the RAID install
>> floppy.  And remember - YOU HAVE NO USB!!  Don't depend on thumb
>> drives.  Get the network working smoothly, pronto, or plan on burning a
>> lot of temp CDs.  I'd recommend NETBEUI on source and destination for
>> real smoothness, but the virtual supervisor probably doesn't support
>> that.  Stick with ONE, common, vanilla, known-good NIC.

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