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Installing a Serial Mouse
Follow these steps to install a Serial Mouse on the terminal.
1.Edit the boot.ini file, which is located in the root of the C drive.
a.Open Windows NT Explorer
b.Go to the View menu and select Folder Options.
c.Select the View tab.
d.Scroll down until you see a folder that is labeled Hidden Files. Make sure the button labeled Show All Files is selected and then select OK.
e.Select the C drive root directory. Scroll down until you find the file named boot.ini and select it.
f.Open the File menu and then select Properties.
g.Uncheck the box labeled Read Only and then select OK.
h.Open the boot.ini file with Notepad. It should have the following entries:
[operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00" /NoSerialMice
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00 [VGA mode]" /basevideo /sos
2.Delete the text /NoSerialMice. The file should now look like:
3.Save the file and then restart the terminal with the serial mouse connected.
After the terminal restarts it recognizes the mouse and installs the supporting drivers. The drivers are located on the hard drive at C:\install\i386. If for some reason they are not on the hard drive, connect the terminal to a network and share a
