Setup of Acer 333Mhz - NT BDC

 

Important Info :

Open machine and add the other ethernet card, the 3com, 3c905TX. We will use it later on, because the Intel 82557 is not properly supported under NT for an install.

We will be loading NT as a Backup Domain Controller.

Began Fresh Install of NT4.0. Insert CDRom and Diskette number 1 into respective drives. Power up machine.

At this point I have already made sure to have a 1Gig partition to install the Windows NT server into. I will be selecting NTFS for filesystem when prompted.

Setup should be :

Format 1Gig partition to be NTFS.

Display : 640 x 480 16 colors (Currently the AGP video card is not supported by NT)

Eject CDRom and diskette(s) and reboot as prompted

After the machine reboots, NT is fully installed. We can now begin our install of service packs, software, optional network components, etc.

At this point it is important to understand the disk layout that will be used (required) for the setup of some of the software. I have chosen to go with a setup like this :

Partition Usage Size Format

Of course the first thing to do is to logon. So use the default Administrator account, and the password is defined as above.

Insert the NT 4.0 CDRom and we will begin the IIS (Internet Information Server) 2.0 Install. Close the window that appears when the cd is inserted and click on the icon on the desktop for IIS install.

I created a directory on the D: drive, called secure, for any info we want to keep secure of course. This is the area we will use now. Under that main directory, we will need a few other directories. First one is "InetPub" for the publishing of all of our internet info. The second directory is "InetSrv". This is for the IIS source files. I feel that they should not be mixed together with the others, and now we can control our shares. For the IIS install, we use the www and ftp subdirectories under InetPub for the locations of those files. You will have to create these directories also.

Right click on the "network neighborhood" icon, so that we can add some additional services/components. They are as follows :

Setup DHCP as a server/service on this machine by going into the Admin tools. First we have to go to the PDC, and add an exclusion range of 192.168.97.101 to 192.168.97.199. We will supplement the addresses being served on the current PDC, so we used a start address of 192.168.97.101, and an end address of 192.168.97.199. This seems as though it will provide plenty of room for now.

Installed Resource kit next, by inserting Resource Kit CD. Click on "Install Resource Kit". Use the same User Name and Company Name as we used in the NT install. Install into destination directory of D:\apps\NTResKit. Choose custom and select all !!

Right click on "My Computer" and choose properties. Select the "Startup/Shutdown" tab, and change the timeout period to 5 seconds.

While still in explorer, set the options for full detailed display, and other options so that we can see all the files.

Add Service Pak 3. Insert the Dell Service Pack CD, and when it comes up in html, find the link for installing it. Click on that link, and it will launch the service pack install. Install with and uninstall directory. Restart the PC when prompted.

 

Final steps :