Operating System Installation; Dos - Promise Technology FASTTRAK66 User Manual

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Chapter 7

Operating System Installation

The FastTrak66 card operates in various operating systems through either
onboard BIOS or software drivers. These operating systems are fully suppor-
ted by the FastTrak onboard BIOS driver:
• DOS 5.x and above
• Windows 3.1x
• Windows for Workgroups 3.1x operation
These operating systems have additional driver support provided on the
Promise diskette.
• Windows 95/98
• Windows NT 3.5x, 4.0
The following sections detail installation instructions for particular operating
systems.

DOS

The DOS operating systems are supported by the FastTrak66 onboard BIOS.
No additional drivers are required. For first time installation, follow the stan-
dard methods of installing the DOS operating system onto your hard disk:
1) Place "Disk 1" of your DOS installation diskettes into the A: drive
2) Type "A:\SETUP" at the A: prompt.
3) Follow the normal DOS installation procedures and refer to your DOS
manual for additional details.
OR
1) Place a DOS bootable diskette that contains both DOS FDISK.EXE and
FORMAT.COM into the A: drive.
2) At the A: prompt, run your DOS FDISK utility program.
3) Create a Primary partition onto the hard disk. The utility program will
continue until it asks you to put a DOS bootable floppy into the system and
press a key to restart the system.
4) After rebooting to a DOS bootable floppy, run the DOS FORMAT
command with the /S - type "FORMAT C: /S" from the A: prompt. Refer
to the DOS Operating System manual for installation and partitioning/
formatting additional hard disks.
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