From: Gary Britt 

John, thanks for that additional information.  If and when its installed,
it will be behind a firewall and not directly exposed to the internet. 
Thanks for the tip on the disk drivers during setup.  That could be a
nightmare for the unwary.

Gary

John Beckett wrote:
> Gary Britt  wrote in message
> news::
>> 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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