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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 supported 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 standard meth-
ods 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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