[pcalvert]

I was surprised to find this today. I searched the forums several months ago, looking for information on slipstreaming NT4, and totally missed it. I just searched the forums again and was also surprised to find no discussions about this utility. I guess I'm not the only person to have overlooked this. Has anyone tried it?

Phil

Tomcat76, on Mar 10 2008, 12:11 AM, said:

Basic slipstreamer for WKS and SRV (SP6a, rollup, Windows Installer 2.0 and select hotfixes).
Download (pick latest)
Read _readme.txt as well as the _support*.txt file that applies to your edition (Terminal Server not supported yet).

This project may merge with HFSLIP.

(Found it here: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...st&p=745252 )

[Kelsenellenelvian]

OMG I am cooking it NOW!

Thanks.

[fdv]

Your own risk, no production systems please, comes with no warranty and no support from us, etc etc.
This forum really isn't "for" this software, it was a one-off made as kind of a technical challenge.
We didn't intend for anyone to use it outside of a core group of about 10 of us fiddling with NT. It's got some HFSLIP code but don't expect us to offer help since it wasn't intended for wide release. So -- hobbyists only, please.

There is other slipstreaming software for NT out there too, but this one overcomes several key issues that others miss. (For example, though I forget the name, there is a SP6a driver file that has the same name as an NT system file. This program is "aware" of this and streams correctly. Others don't.) So, this will create a working NT, but I encourage switching to Win2000 at the very least. Many bugs and exploits cropped up -after- support for NT was discontinued.

[pcalvert]

Hi Fred,

Thanks for providing additional info about this utility and the warning about not using NT4 on production systems. In my case, I am interested in running Windows NT Workstation 4.0 in a VM and maybe also on old, "junk" computers. In both cases, Windows NT will not be connected to a network, or will have very limited network access for specific purposes which do not include e-mail or web access.

I was originally thinking of using Windows 98, probably slimmed down a little with 98lite, for particular applications where a "light" version of Windows is desirable. Then, a few months ago, I ran into a comment about how NT Workstation has excellent performance in a VM, and I realized that it might be a better choice than Win9x for what I want to do.

Phil