Install Windows NT 4.0 on DEC Multia UDB VX40

Описание: It's time to install Windows NT 4.0 on this Alpha processor-based DEC Multia UDB VX40. Should be easy and painless, right? Lol! Guess again! This was the most PAINFUL installation of any version of Windows that I have ever experienced, and it wasn't even Microsoft's fault!

This is largely intended as a tutorial for the next person that wants to try

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00:00 Intro
01:51 System configuration background
02:10 Setting the system time
02:30 Failure mode 1: Not Y2K compliant
03:25 Setting the default environment variables
03:57 Failure mode 2: No system partition
04:15 Failure mode 3: Host SCSI ID not set
04:43 Creating the system partition
05:13 Starting the Windows NT install!
05:47 Failure mode 4: Installation partition size too big
07:08 Don't worry about boot selections yet
08:09 Configuring the network
08:32 Configuring the video adapter
09:12 Fixing the boot selection
10:36 First boot to Windows NT 4.0!
11:11 Closing words

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