wesleyfurr
Veteran Member
Spent some quality time today playing with my "new" AT&T/NCR 3430. Tried installing NT Advanced Server 3.1 but ran into problems (bad disk image I acquired?) but got Workstation 3.1 working. After a bit of tinkering I installed NT WS 3.51 onto another partition. Got it running and updated, fixed a networking issue, then tried to boot back to NT 3.1. It starts out with NT Loader 3.51 (which I thought odd), goes to the blue screen showing the computer, NT 3.1, 64Mb RAM, and 2 CPU's (yeah, it's pretty cool!), and then it blue screens with a STOP 7b INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE. 3.1 is on the C: partition, and 3.51 is on D:. The boot.ini lines are a little different, 3.1 starts with scsi rather than multi or something like that, along with something about SCSI at the end of the line, whereas 3.51 starts with multi I believe. Changed it to the 3.51 format and no change. Guessing the 3.51 install broke something somehow...
Before I spend too much time beating my head against the wall, has anyone else ever tried to do this and/or have any thoughts? From a brief bit of googling, sounds like it ought to work...but there's also not much in the way of info out there about NT 3.1!
If I can get it to work, I think it would be neat to have as many NT versions as possible installed on it...at least 3.1, 3.51, and 4.0, maybe even server versions of at least the latter two.
Thanks,
Wesley
Before I spend too much time beating my head against the wall, has anyone else ever tried to do this and/or have any thoughts? From a brief bit of googling, sounds like it ought to work...but there's also not much in the way of info out there about NT 3.1!
If I can get it to work, I think it would be neat to have as many NT versions as possible installed on it...at least 3.1, 3.51, and 4.0, maybe even server versions of at least the latter two.
Thanks,
Wesley