Windows NT 4.0 Install guide

Revision: 1.00
Updated: 9/15/2000

Supported system
8657
Follow the network operating system (NOS) installation instructions provided in this document in sequential order unless you are instructed differently. The windows and messages might differ from those in this document. Throughout this document the term "Select" is used to denote the use of arrow keys to highlight and choose a menu item.

Sections within this document
1.0 Before installing Windows
2.0 Installation instructions
3.0 Installing additional drivers and services
3.1 Installing video drivers
3.2 Installing Service Pack
4.0 Appendix
4.1 ServeRAIDTM
4.2 Installing ServeRAID- 3x/4H drivers along with Windows NT
4.3 Installing ServeRAID- 4M/4L drivers along with Windows NT
4.4 Installing ServeRAID Manager
4.5 Where to download device drivers and files
4.6 Known issues

1.0 Before installing Windows
This document provides Netfinity 3500 M20 system users with the installation instructions for a basic Windows NT version 4.0 software installation. Windows NT 4.0 presents many different installation options. You might install or uninstall options that will allow maximum performance from your Netfinity server. This might result in windows and messages that will differ from those in this document. Be sure to follow these instructions for installing Windows NT precisely to ensure that you install Windows NT correctly. Windows NT allows you to install components after the installation process is completed. Determine if the system is equipped with an IBM ServeRAIDTM card. If your system is equipped with an IBM ServeRAID card, please review the "Appendix" before you proceed with the installation instructions in section "2.0" to perform additional procedures.

 

2.0 Installation instructions

1.     Insert the "Windows NT 4.0 installation CD" into the CD-ROM drive and restart the system.

2.     After you restart the system, a prompt will display the following message, "Setup is inspecting your computers hardware configuration Press F6". This message will enable setup to discover that the third party SCSI controller is installed.

NOTE: The prompt will only display for a few seconds; then, it will automatically start running Windows NT setup. Setup will now detect the systems hard disk drive locations and restart the system. After you restart the system, a prompt will display the message in step 2.

3.     The system will load Windows NT setup. A blue screen will display Windows NT setup at the top left hand corner of the window. Windows NT setup will begin loading the appropriate files; this process might take several minutes. After loading the appropriate files, you are prompted with a message that indicates setup was unable to determine the type of one or more hard disk drives installed in the system. A list of devices that setup has detected, loaded, and support will be the following devices:

o    QLogic PCI SCSI Host adapter

o    AMD PCI SCSI Controller/Ethernet adapter

o    BusLogic FlashPoint

o    Compaq 32-Bit Fast-Wide SCSI –2/E

Press the S key to specify additional SCSI adapters for use with Windows NT version 4.0.

4.     A list of SCSI adapters will appear. Select other and choose the Adaptec Ultra160 Family PCI SCSI Controller (NT 4.0) driver from the Adaptec Ultra160 Family Manager Set diskette.

5.     Insert the Adaptec Ultra160 Family Manager Set diskette into the diskette drive and press Enter.

6.     Windows NT setup will automatically locate the appropriate hardware drivers. A list of devices will appear, select the Adaptec Ultra160 Family PCI SCSI Controller (NT 4.0) and press Enter.

7.     After setup has completed loading the selected driver, return to the window that displays the list of loadable devices in step 3. The list displays the following devices:

o    AMD PCI SCSI Controller/Ethernet adapter

o    BusLogic FlashPoint

o    Compaq 32-Bit Fast-wide SCSI –2/E

o    Adaptec Ultra160 Family PCI SCSI Controller (NT 4.0)

NOTE: The Logic PCI SCSI Host adapter is replaced with the "Adaptec Ultra160 family PCI SCSI Controller (NT 4.0)".

8.     This next "Windows NT Setup" screen displays "Welcome to Setup" at the top left hand corner in white bold letters. Press Enter to set up Windows NT 4.0.

9.     Windows NT setup now attempts to detect installed controllers and their corresponding drivers. The following controllers should be listed by Windows setup:

o    IDE CD – ROM (AT API 1.2) /PCI IDE Controller

o    Adaptec Ultra160 Family PCI SCSI Controller (NT 4.0)

Press Enter.

10.   Setup might state that the system Random Access Memory (RAM) capabilities are very large. If the message appears, press Enter.

11.   Setup now prompts you that the hard drive is either new or has been erased and warns you that if you continue setup, it might result in permanent lost in the systems startup hard disk. Press C to continue.

12.   Windows NT Setup now displays the "Licensing Agreement". Read the licensing agreement and press Page Down to scroll to the next page. Continue to do so until the last page then, press F8 to agree.

13.   The Windows NT setup menu displays the major hardware components that are installed.

NOTE: This list is not a definitive list and is only meant to provide enough basic hardware compatibility to complete setup. Make changes by pressing the UP and DOWN arrow keys to select the item to be changed; then, press Enter to display your options. When you are finished, press Enter.

14.   Windows NT setup displays all hard disk drive storage that is available on the system. You can choose or create a partition into which to install Windows NT 4.0. If the hard disk drive is new, there is no partitioned space. Press the C key to create a partition.

15.   In the next screen under "Create Partition Size", delete the default value, type 4097, and press Enter.

NOTE: The maximum size boot partition that can be created with NT version 4.0 setup is "4GB". Setup brings you back to the previous screen. The following command will appear (highlighted) C: New (unformatted 4094). If it is not highlighted, highlight it and press Enter.

16.   You are prompted to choose between FAT and NTFS File systems, be sure that you select NTFS. Select Format the Partition by using NTFS file and press Enter to format the drive.

17.   After you select and/or format a target logical drive for installing Windows NT 4.0, you will be prompted to supply a directory name. By default, Windows NT 4.0 will be installed onto directory C: and into the path \WINNT. Press Enter if this path is the planned directory or change the location by typing in a different target directory.

18.   Before you copy the Windows NT files into the target directory, Windows NT setup prompts you to examine your configured hard disk drive for corruption. Press Enter to allow setup to perform an exhaustive secondary examination of the systems hard disk drive.

NOTE: Be sure to perform an exhaustive secondary examination. If Windows NT is installed onto a disk that is partially corrupt, the system might fail to boot or it might suffer data loss.

19.   Windows NT setup will copy the Windows NT system files into the specified directory and partition. A progress bar with a percentage counter will display during the file copying process. Detailed file information will appear in the lower right hand corner of the window. After the required files are copied, a prompt will display the message, "This portion of Setup has completed successfully". Remove the diskettes and the Windows NT 4.0 setup CD-ROM from the drive and press Enter to restart the computer. Windows NT 4.0 will now boot into the graphical portion of setup.

20.   During the restart, a "Virus Warning" window will appear which states that the "boot sector has been changed". The change is expected; therefore, select Change is expected and press Enter. Setup loads additional files and the system will restart.

21.   During the second restart, the virus warning displays once more. Select Change is Expected and press Enter.

22.   The graphical portion of Windows NT 4.0 setup displays. You will be prompted to insert the "Windows NT 4.0 setup CD-ROM". Insert the CD and click OK to allow Windows NT 4.0 setup to run.

23.   Windows NT setup wizard will guide you through the graphical portion of Windows NT setup in steps 27 through 49. Setup wizard allows you to scroll back and forth freely between several screens of options and make as many changes as needed before you commit to the choices you made.

24.   You are prompted to type in your name and organization (optional). Windows NT uses this information to generate unique ID numbers for the computer. Type in the user name and organization in the fields provided, then click Next to continue.

25.   Enter the product ID for your Windows NT 4.0 CD-ROM and click Next.

26.   Choose the appropriate licensing mode. To change the "per server number" value, click the up and down arrows located to the right of the number; then, click Next to continue.

27.   You will be prompted to provide a name for the computer, which will be used to uniquely identify it on any network to which it is connected. Type thename for the computer in the field provided. Click Next to continue.

NOTE: Computers must not have the same names if they are in the same network.

28.   There are three choices of server types, select the appropriate one and click Next.

29.   To select an administrative password, type the administrative password in the first field and confirm the password by retyping it again in the second field. Click Next to continue.

NOTE: Passwords are case sensitive. Be sure to use a combination of upper and lower case letters with at least one number.

30.   Setup will now prompt you to create an emergency repair disk. Be sure to create an emergency disk. Select Yes.

31.   Select and deselect components. To prevent a given component from being installed deselect the components checkbox.

NOTE: You may add additional components after you have installed Windows NT 4.0 by pressing Add/Remove Programs in "Control Panel". Click Next to continue.

32.   Setup takes you back to the outline. Be sure that Installing Windows NT Networking is highlighted. Click Next to continue.

33.   Select how the system will participate in a network. Setup presents the following two choices:

o    Do not connect this computer to a network at this time.

o    This computer will participate on a network.

o    Select this computer, it will participate on a network, and click Next.

34.   In this window, you will have a choice to have the system be wired to a network or remote access to the network. If the system is wired click Next.

35.   To allow setup to install "Microsoft Internet Information Server Option" click the box next to it. Click Next to continue.

36.   Setup will now prompt you for a network adapter. Click Select from List (which will bring up a new window) and then click Have Disk.

37.   An "Insert disk" window will appear. As a default the wizard will search for the network adapter in drive a: (Type in a: if it does not already appear in the blank). Insert the diskette that contains the IBM 10/100 Ethernet adapter and adapter 2 (Intel chipset) driver into the diskette drive. Click OK.

38.   You will be prompted for an OEM option. The IBM 10/100 Ethernet PCI adapter will be the only one listed. Click OK to continue.

39.   Setup brings you back to the "Choose a Network Adapter" window. Make sure that the IBM 10/100 Ethernet PCI adapter has been selected. Click Next to continue.

40.   Select the protocol that will be needed for this system. To select the protocols, click on the box to the right of the selection. To deselect a protocol click the box again. Click Next to continue.

41.   The next window will display a list of Network Services that will be installed. To add it to the list, click Select From List. All Network Services should be selected already. Be sure that you either select or deselect the preferred services for the installation process. Click Next to continue.

42.   Windows will install the selected Networking components. Click Next to continue.

43.   If you have installed the TCP/IP, a window will appear and it will prompt you if DHCP is to be used. Click Yes if you use DHCP. Click No if you use DHCP.

44.   When you have installed and activated all network components, a list of all network bindings appears. This list is a description of what services and what protocols are bound or assigned to which adapters. Generally, there is no need to change the assignments of bindings unless there are circumstances that demand it.

45.   Determine if the system will be participating in a "Workgroup" or a "Domain".

NOTE: Check with your network administrator to determine if you have permission to add a computer to a given domain. Set up workgroup and domain options; then, click Next to continue. Enter the name and password if you are required to join a domain.

46.   All major options in Windows NT have been specified. Click Finish to answer the remaining questions.

47.   To set the date and time, click the Date and Time tab. Change the time by clicking on the portion to be changed and type the correct values.

48.   To set the time zone, click the Time Zone tab. To display a list of time zones, click the arrow located to the right of the displayed default time zone. Click Close when you are finished with editing the time zone, date, and the local time.

49.   A "Detected Display" window will appear and display the video adapter in the system. Click OK to confirm.

50.   Underneath the "Detected Display" window is the "Display Properties" window. Use these windows to change the desktop area, fonts sizes, and color palette. After you have made adjustments, click the Test button to see if the systems video adapter is compatible with the settings. Click OK to begin the test.

51.   The screen will flicker and display colored boxes for a few seconds. Then another window will appear to ask if all the colors were seen clearly. Click Yes and then click OK when the next window appears.

52.   Click OK in the "Display Properties Window" to continue.

NOTE: You may change the display properties after you have installed Windows NT 4.0. Windows setup will take a few minutes to finish the installation process.

53.   If you install Windows NT 4.0 correctly, a window will appear and it will prompt you to remove the setup CD-ROM and restart the system. Remove the "Windows Setup CD-ROM". Click the Restart computer button.

54.   After the system restarts, two video choices will appear. You can choose Windows NT 4.0 (default) by using the arrow keys, or upgrade your video driver to (VGA) by following the steps in "3.0 Installing the additional drivers and services".

NOTE: You will have a few seconds to do this before Windows uses the default setting. The Windows NT 4.0 set up is complete.

3.0 Installing the additional device drivers
You must install the following drivers before Windows NT 4.0 is able to detect installed hardware devices.

·         Video drivers (S3 Savage4 Video Driver Windows NT 4.0)

·         Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack

3.1 Installing video drivers

1.     Download the appropriate drivers and copy the files onto a diskette.

2.     Restart the system.

Important: When the "Please select the operating system to start..." message appears, select Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00 [VGA mode].

3.     Scroll to Start, select Settings, and then click the Control Panel icon.

4.     From "Control Panel", double click the Display icon.

5.     In the "Display Properties" window, click the Settings tab and then click Display Type.

6.     From the "Display Type" window, go to the "Adapter Type" section and click Change.

7.     From the "Change Display" screen, click Have Disk.

8.     Insert the new display driver diskette into drive A:\, then click OK.

9.     From the list of displayed S3 devices, select the systems S3 video device driver.

10.   From "Third-party Drivers", click Yes to proceed.

11.   If a message appears that states the driver is already installed on the system and prompts you to use the current or new drivers, be sure to select New.

12.   If you are prompted for the driver diskette a second time, click Continue.

13.   When the message "the drivers were successfully installed" appears, remove the display driver diskette, and then click OK.

14.   Scroll to the "Display Type" window and click Close.

15.   Scroll to the "Display Properties" window and click Close.

16.   When the "System Settings Change" window appears, you will be prompted to restart the system, click Yes.

3.2 Installing Service Pack

1.     Change your path to the target directory where the Service Pack files are copied (hard disk or CD).

2.     Run Setup.

3.     Click the Agree box to accept the licensing agreement.

4.     Click Install.

5.     After the installation process is complete, restart the system.

4.0 Appendix
4.1 ServeRAID
If you install a ServeRAID card in the Netfinity system, determine which type of ServeRAID card is currently installed. Installation instructions for the 3L, 3H and 4H are similar to each other. The ServeRAID-4L and 4M are common with each other but different from 3L, 3H and 4H.

Important: You should set configurations for the IBM ServeRAID card before you install Windows NT 4.0.

4.2 Installing ServeRAID- 3x/4H along with Windows NT

1.     Insert the ServeRAID CD into the CD-ROM drive immediately after you have started the system.

2.     Shortly after you insert the ServeRAID CD, an "IBM ServeRAID" screen will appear followed by a window that displays the current BIOS and Firmware levels. If they need to be updated, then click Update, if not, skip to step 5.

3.     When the system is done updating its files, you will be prompt to restart the system. Keep the ServeRAID CD in the CD-ROM drive and restart the system.

4.     The system will start off the IBM ServeRAID CD again; however, this time, ServeRAID utilities will start and will be used to create and initialize the ServeRAID logical disks.

Important: You must create and initialize the ServeRAID disks in order for partitions to be visible to Windows NT 4.0. Click here for directions, or see the documentation that was provided with the ServeRAID Controller. Click Server, and for family, select ServeRAID. This steps leads to the ServeRAID Support web page.

5.     After you have created and initialized the ServeRAID disks, remove the IBM ServeRAID SupportCD from the CD-ROM drive and insert the "Windows NT 4.0 Setup CD". Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete to restart the system.

6.     After you restart the system, you are prompted with "Setup is inspecting your computers hardware configuration", press the F6; this message will let Setup know that a third party SCSI controller is installed.

NOTE: The prompt will only display for a few seconds, then it will automatically go into Windows NT Setup not knowing where the systems hard drives are. If this process happens, restart the system and look for the prompt again.

7.     The system will load Windows NT setup. A blue screen will display Windows NT setup at the top left hand corner of the window. Windows NT setup will begin loading the appropriate files this might take several minutes. After loading the appropriate files, you are prompted with a message that indicates "setup was unable to determine the type of one or more hard disk drives installed in the system". A list of devices that setup has detected, loaded, and support will be the following devices:

o    Logic PCI SCSI Host adapter

o    AMD PCI SCSI Controller/Ethernet

o    BusLogic Flash Point

o    Compaq 32-Bit Fast-wide SCSI –2/E

Press S to specify if you have additional SCSI adapters to use with Windows NT 4.0. A list of SCSI adapters will appear.

8.     Choose other to load the device driver for the IBM ServeRAID SCSI Controller from the ServeRAID driver diskette.

9.     Insert the "ServeRAID driver diskette" into the diskette drive and press Enter.

10.   Choose to install the IBM Netfinity ServeRAID-3x/4H Controller (NT 4.0) and press Enter. Setup will spend a few seconds loading the appropriate files. You will be prompted with the message, "Setup will load support for the following mass storage device(s)". The list should be similar to the list displayed previously. However, IBM ServeRAID-3x/4H Controller (NT 4.0) will replace the Logic PCI SCSI Host adapter. Press Enter to continue.

o    From the "Windows NT 4.0 setup" screen, press Enter to set up Windows NT 4.0.

o    From the "Controller" screen, Windows Setup displays the systems controllers and the following controllers should be listed:

§  IDE CD-ROM (AT API 1.2) /PCI IDE Controller

§  IBM Netfinity ServeRAID-3x/4H Controller (NT 4.0)

Press Enter.

11.   Continue with step 10 of Installation Instructions of Windows NT setup.

4.3 Installing ServeRAID- 4L/4M along with Windows NT

1.     Insert the ServeRAID CD into the CD-ROM drive immediately after the system is started.

2.     Shortly after you insert the ServeRAID CD-ROM, an "IBM ServeRAID" screen will appear followed by a window that displays the current BIOS and Firmware levels. If they need to be updated, then click Update, if not, skip to step 5.

3.     When the system has completed updating its files, you will be prompted to restart the system. With the ServeRAID CD in the CD-ROM drive, Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete to restart the system.

4.     The system will boot off the IBM ServeRAID CD again; however, this time, ServeRAID utilities will start and will be used to create and initialize the ServeRAID logical drives.

Important: You must create and initialize the ServeRAID disks in order for partitions to be detected by Windows NT version 4.0. Click here for instructions, or refer to the documentation that was provided with the ServeRAID Controller. Click Server, and for family, select ServeRAID for the support web page.

5.     After you have created and initialized the ServeRAID disks, remove the IBM ServeRAID Support CD from the CD-ROM drive and insert the "Windows NT 4.0 Setup CD". Press Ctrl + Alt + Delete to restart the system.

6.     After the system restarts, you will be prompted with the following message "Setup is inspecting your computers hardware configuration". Press F6; this message will allow setup to discover that a third party SCSI controller is installed.

NOTE: The prompt will only display for a few seconds, then it will automatically go into Windows NT Setup not knowing where the systems hard drives are. If this happens, restart the system and look for the prompt again.

7.     The system will load Windows NT setup. A blue screen will display Windows NT setup at the top left hand corner of the window. Windows NT setup will begin loading the appropriate files; this process might take several minutes. After loading the appropriate files, you are prompted with a message that indicates "setup was unable to determine the type of one or more hard disk drives installed in the system". A list of devices that setup has detected, loaded, and support will be the following devices:

o    Logic PCI SCSI Host adapter

o    AMD PCI SCSI Controller/Ethernet

o    BusLogic Flash Point

o    Compaq 32-Bit Fast-wide SCSI –2/E

Press S to specify additional SCSI adapters for use with Windows NT version 4.0. A list of SCSI adapters will appear.

8.     Choose other to load the device driver for the IBM ServeRAID SCSI Controller from the ServeRAID driver diskette.

9.     Insert the "ServeRAID diskette" or the diskette containing the downloaded drivers into the diskette drive and press Enter.

10.   Select the IBM Netfinity ServeRAID-4M/4L Controller (NT 4.0) and press Enter. Setup will spend a few seconds loading the required files. After the files load, the following message will appear "Setup will load support for the following mass storage device(s)". The list should be similar to the list displayed previously. However, the IBM ServeRAID-4M/4L Controller (NT 4.0) takes the place of Logic PCI SCSI Host adapter. Press Enter to continue.

11.   The " Windows NT 4.0 setup" screen appears, press Enter to set up Windows NT 4.0.

12.   In the "Controller" screen, Windows setup displays the systems controllers as follows:

o    IDE CD-ROM (AT API 1.2) /PCI IDE Controller

o    IBM Netfinity ServeRAID-4M/4L Controller (NT 4.0)

Press Enter.

13.   Continue with step 10 of Installation Instructions of the Windows NT setup.

4.4 Installing ServeRAID Manager
Be sure to install IBM ServeRAID Manager in your Windows NT 4.0 Server in order to maximize the performance of the IBM ServeRAID card installed.

1.     From "Windows NT 4.0 Server", insert the IBM ServeRAID CD into the CD-ROM drive.

2.     A "Welcome" window will appear and it will give you a warning to exit all windows programs before you run the setup program.
Exit all Windows programs and click Next.

3.     The "Licensing Agreement" window will appear. Read the license agreement and click Yes to continue.

4.     Select the operating system to be used on the server, in this case, it is Windows NT / Windows 2000. Click Next to continue.
This window, gives the options to install or not to install the ServeRAID Manager agent. Select Yes, install service and Click Next to Continue.

5.     Click Next until you have the option to install ServeRAID Manager.

6.     Choose the path in which ServeRAID will be installed. ServeRAID is defaulted to setup in c:\ Program Files\Raidman. If this is the desired location, click Next to install ServeRAID Manager.

 

4.5 Where to download device drivers and files

1.     Click here to download the Adaptec Ultra160 Family Manager set.

2.     Click here to download the Service Pack.

3.     Click here to download the Video drivers.

4.     Click here to download the ServeRAID drivers.

5.     Click here to download the IBM Netfinity 10/100 Ethernet adapter and Adapter 2 (Intel chipset) driver.

 

4.6 Known issues
Click here to view the Netfinity server hints and tips for Windows NT 4.0. Then, click Servers, under family, select All, and click Hints and Tips inside the left blue margin. After you click Hints and Tips, under "category", select Windows NT. A window will provide helpful information and some troubleshooting tips for installing Windows NT.