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First post, by Battery365

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Hello, I've recently watched a video on the Windows NT 4.0 Server Network Client Administration Deployment, For context, a Network Installation Startup Disk allows you to deploy Windows 95, alongside other tools from a network share.

I'm trying to get Windows 95 deployed over a network from Windows NT 4.0 server share. To do this, I have to boot from a disk that NT 4.0 makes, after formatting it to be bootable, it does boot, and even connects to the domain, but when it comes time to start the installation, it all falls apart with setup going back to the command line with the error:

Cannot create a temporary directory. If you have HPFS or NTFS installed on your hard drive, you will need to create a MS-DOS boot partition to setup windows.

After some investigation, I discovered that it couldn't create a temporary directory because C: wasn't mounted, and I'm not sure why. The Windows 95 boot disk detects it just fine, and the virtual disk I used is new, formatted in FAT32. I run the SYS c: command, which completed successfully, but still, it refuses to work.

Does anyone have anything to help fix this?

I'm doing this through 86box, if anyone was wondering.

Reply 2 of 6, by chinny22

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Unable to help but please do keep posting about this project, it looks very interesting!

Reply 3 of 6, by Horun

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Yes Windows 95 native used FAT16, Win95 OSR2 started the FAT32 thing.... other issue is probably because you are doing this virtually (86box) and not actually. Can you post link to that Youtube video

Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun

Reply 6 of 6, by Battery365

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Battery365 wrote on 2024-10-23, 07:11:
elszgensa wrote on 2024-10-21, 18:00:
Battery365 wrote on 2024-10-21, 17:04:

the virtual disk [is] formatted in FAT32

Try FAT16. FAT32 was still very new at that time.

That seemed to work, thanks!

And I jinxed myself. It does boot, but only into safe mode, otherwise, I just get a windows general protection fault. Oh well... At least it does install.