Windows NT 4.0 Live CD

[Resident007]

Hello everyone! Is there a way to make Windows NT 4.0 Live CD? I was searching over the net, but found nothing

[computebrute]

You can use BartPE to make a bootable live CD.

[betaluva]

the closest thing i have seen is a OS 2 Live cd.

[yourepicfailure]

You can use BartPE to make a bootable live CD.

BartPE only wants to work with Windows 2000+ AFAIK.

[jimmsta]

There's really no easy way to do it - not to say it's impossible, though. You could create an image of a fully installed NT4 system, and boot it using grub. Granted, the OS itself wouldn't know what to do with the read-only filesystem, unless there's a way to fully load the image in RAM and enable read/write functionality within RAM. Windows PE wasn't introduced until NT5.1, whereas NT4 and 5.0 suffer from the lack of an easily configurable Live CD environment, sadly.

That said, perhaps we can take reactOS's live CD as a guideline too. In fact, replacing ROS files with NT4 files may provide something - just speculating here - or just a big pile of crashing bits

[yourepicfailure]

or just a big pile of crashing bits

Big pile of crashing bits definitely. Trust me, I've tried.

[Stephanos]

/MININT boot option is the key to implementing "live CD." I am planning to start working on it soon.

[RentedMule]

It is possible with NT4 embedded, but it has caveats.

The plug and play in NT4 may as well as not existed, as when it did work, it mostly didn't. Drivers weren't installed on the fly, nor autodetected except maybe a few bits during installation. You would need to know the target hardware before you built an image.

[Resident007]

/MININT boot option is the key to implementing "live CD." I am planning to start working on it soon.

Okay. It would be good if you make a real NT4 Live CD using MININT.

[Resident007]

And one more question: is it possible to make Longhorn Live CD (no matter which build, 3718, 4015 or 4074)?

[Archenemy]

And one more question: is it possible to make Longhorn Live CD (no matter which build, 3718, 4015 or 4074)?

Yes, you can. For i386 setup, follow MSTest's guide for i386 setup and for WIM setup, use PantherXP to help you, and then with either i386 or WIM, burn the ISO on to a DVD-R or a CD-R making sure that your disk is 800MB or larger.

[gus33000]

And one more question: is it possible to make Longhorn Live CD (no matter which build, 3718, 4015 or 4074)?

Yes, you can. For i386 setup, follow MSTest's guide for i386 setup and for WIM setup, use PantherXP to help you, and then with either i386 or WIM, burn the ISO on to a DVD-R or a CD-R making sure that your disk is 800MB or larger.

That's for converting setup into WIM/i386. That doesn't explain much about how to do a live cd...

However this might help you : http://uxunleaked.blogspot.fr/2008/05/h ... ndows.html (That's only the winpe part)

[Archenemy]

And one more question: is it possible to make Longhorn Live CD (no matter which build, 3718, 4015 or 4074)?

Yes, you can. For i386 setup, follow MSTest's guide for i386 setup and for WIM setup, use PantherXP to help you, and then with either i386 or WIM, burn the ISO on to a DVD-R or a CD-R making sure that your disk is 800MB or larger.

That's for converting setup into WIM/i386. That doesn't explain much about how to do a live cd...

However this might help you : http://uxunleaked.blogspot.fr/2008/05/h ... ndows.html (That's only the winpe part)

Don't forget for Milestone 7, you can make a Windows PE without extracting the contents from the install.wim: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=7337. For 5112+ here is the guide: http://dk.toastednet.org/iex_lh/Text/LH ... idkewl.txt.

[Resident007]

And one more question: is it possible to make Longhorn Live CD (no matter which build, 3718, 4015 or 4074)?

Yes, you can. For i386 setup, follow MSTest's guide for i386 setup and for WIM setup, use PantherXP to help you, and then with either i386 or WIM, burn the ISO on to a DVD-R or a CD-R making sure that your disk is 800MB or larger.

That's for converting setup into WIM/i386. That doesn't explain much about how to do a live cd...

However this might help you : http://uxunleaked.blogspot.fr/2008/05/h ... ndows.html (That's only the winpe part)

Don't forget for Milestone 7, you can make a Windows PE without extracting the contents from the install.wim: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=7337. For 5112+ here is the guide: http://dk.toastednet.org/iex_lh/Text/LH ... idkewl.txt.

Thanks for the answer, but can I implement Windows Explorer in LH PE?

[Archenemy]

Thanks for the answer, but can I implement Windows Explorer in LH PE?

You can make Longhorn 4051 PE work with Bart PE: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/16628-u ... ntry116173

[Resident007]

Thanks for the answer, but can I implement Windows Explorer in LH PE?

You can make Longhorn 4051 PE work with Bart PE: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/16628-u ... ntry116173

Thanks, i will try it out

[os2fan2]

WinPE requires XP Pro sp1 or better. Bartpe can be made with XP home.