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Chapter 3. Pre-installation Considerations
This chapter is aimed at providing guidelines regarding hardware, software and capacity consideration requirements when installing NT 4.0.
Windows NT Server 4.0 is a
3.1 Hardware Requirements
The following are the minimum hardware requirements for installing NT 4.0:
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16 MB of RAM
VGA level video support Keyboard
IDE, EIDE, SCSI, or ESDI hard disk drive 486/25 processor or better
Network card
IBM Adapters
Refer to Appendix D, ªTips on Windows NT and IBM Hardwareº on page 155 for information about common problems found with IBM network adapters.
Although the minimum memory requirement is 16 MB, this offers only minimal functionality. As a result, Microsoft recommends 32 MB of RAM or more. Microsoft also recommends a 486DX2/50 or better processor. The minimum space requirements for Windows NT Server 4.0 is 124 MB.
See 3.2, ªSetup Optionsº on page 63 for more information.
Verify that there are no
3.1.1 Enhanced IDE (EIDE) Drive Considerations
NT 4.0 supports only the following EIDE addressing schemes:
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Logical Block Addressing (LBA)
ONTrack Disk Manager
EZDrive
Extended Cylinder Head Sector (ECHS)
Note: Only the IBM PC Server 310 has an EIDE controller as standard.
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