Windows beta builds that are NOT in the MS Collection Book

[linuxlove]

Aah too bad I saw these links too late . I hope they will be uploaded to another server very fast.

Anyway, thanks so much for sharing Darkstar!

I uploaded all of them to the BA server.

[zeehonden_3]

OK thanks a lot! Hope mrpijey will be fast (not to hurry you, I'm just really interested)

[angelwolf71885]

wow thats a hell of a lucky find did you get them for free? i mean he was throwing them out after all

[Kenneth]

Full NT Cairo. This is OFS Windows Cairo, not some other sort of thing.

[Vista custo]

"Windows 95" just magically appeared on start menu along too eh?

[Darkstar]

Hi,

skfunnyboy fixed the broken ARJ archive in this build:
http://cornelia.regengedanken.de/~mdrue ... T1227S.rar (this time without password)

Actually, it's not fixed, just all other (intact) files repacked. The only missing (i.e. broken) file is SOUND36.WAV which can be taken from another NT4 server build (the WAV files didn't change much between the builds I guess) to get a working and complete version.

Thanks skfunnyboy!

I have found some other betas (MS Visual Basic, MSIE2.0, MS Commerce Server, MS Connection Point Services, MS Exchange Server, and some non-MS software) and some ALPHA (even MIPS/PPC) software from MS, although most of that is pretty unspectacular (SDKs, System Management Server, stuff like that) although I do have Excel5 for ALPHA if there's any interest in that.

-Darkstar

[linuxlove]

Any beta you have will be much welcome.
And there are some Non-X86 users here too that I think would be happy to get more software for their platform.

And hey, you have 10 posts! Go see if you can get FTP access now

[Daniel]

Could you re-upload all the files Darkstar?

[Kenneth]

"Windows 95" just magically appeared on start menu along too eh?

Yeah, appears to be called the 'Chicago Shell and User Update' too...

[trustBA]

OK Darkstar, can you re-upload the Windows 95 SDK beta2, PC-DOS 7.0 final beta, and PC-DOS 7.0 beta?

Full NT Cairo. This is OFS Windows Cairo, not some other sort of thing.

What is OFS?

[Random_User]

OK Darkstar, can you re-upload the Windows 95 SDK beta2, PC-DOS 7.0 final beta, and PC-DOS 7.0 beta?

Full NT Cairo. This is OFS Windows Cairo, not some other sort of thing.

What is OFS?

OFS is short for Object-Oriented File System. It's a prototype of a file system with support for structured and unstructured data, which Microsoft intended to include as a feature in Cairo before it was cancelled.

[skfunnyboy]

DarkStar: No problem

For the other want these build, its avaliable in the http://winbetalounge.co.cc FTP

Skfunnyboy

[Random_User]

DarkStar: No problem

For the other want these build, its avaliable in the http://winbetalounge.co.cc FTP

Skfunnyboy

According to Betacollector21, the WinBetaLounge FTP Server is empty.

[skfunnyboy]

DarkStar: No problem

For the other want these build, its avaliable in the http://winbetalounge.co.cc FTP

Skfunnyboy

According to Betacollector21, the WinBetaLounge FTP Server is empty.

1.: I am the Owner, BC21 is the Co-Owner
and 2 : now he not empty

[trustBA]

The first phase installation of Windows NT 3.5 Build 854 on VPC 2004 is completed, however:

1. I deleted the RDR.SYS file because of Trojan.
2. I don't know how to patch the installation files (INTITAL.INF and SETUP.INF) to work for Pentium II or later processors.

Here is the result:



Can you show me a fix (because copying the patched installer files from 807 build leads to the error)?

[skfunnyboy]

Really dont know ..
I know that the file RDR.SYS is a virus .. why.. i dont know.. but i dont have time to mess with this so!

[angelwolf71885]

The first phase installation of Windows NT 3.5 Build 854 on VPC 2004 is completed, however:

1. I deleted the RDR.SYS file because of Trojan.
2. I don't know how to patch the installation files (INTITAL.INF and SETUP.INF) to work for Pentium II or later processors.

Here is the result:



Can you show me a fix (because copying the patched installer files from 807 build leads to the error)?

unless mcafee or norton say its a virus then its NOT a virus

[skfunnyboy]

The first phase installation of Windows NT 3.5 Build 854 on VPC 2004 is completed, however:

1. I deleted the RDR.SYS file because of Trojan.
2. I don't know how to patch the installation files (INTITAL.INF and SETUP.INF) to work for Pentium II or later processors.

Here is the result:



Can you show me a fix (because copying the patched installer files from 807 build leads to the error)?

unless mcafee or norton say its a virus then its NOT a virus

My Avira detected it

[angelwolf71885]

did you look that virus up? if it comes up with no info found its a false posative

[betascollector]

The first phase installation of Windows NT 3.5 Build 854 on VPC 2004 is completed, however:

1. I deleted the RDR.SYS file because of Trojan.
2. I don't know how to patch the installation files (INTITAL.INF and SETUP.INF) to work for Pentium II or later processors.

Here is the result:

snip

Can you show me a fix (because copying the patched installer files from 807 build leads to the error)?

unless mcafee or norton say its a virus then its NOT a virus

My Avira detected it

My AVG on my laptop says its virus but says is not a virus. Safe!

[skfunnyboy]

anyway, he on WinBetaLounge ftp if you want it !

[ultrawindows]

@trustBA,

1. Boot with an Windows 95 bootdisk
2. Use FDISK to create a partition
3. Reboot
4. Format the partition with: A:\>Format C: /u /s
5. Now make a dir on C:\ using the command C:\>md i386
6. Copy all files to this dir from the R:\i386 drive: C:\>copy R:\i386\*.* C:\i386
7. If it fails on banana.an_ (banana.ani -> CD-Rom Driver), shutdown the VM, open the harddrive image and just copy the i386 folder into the root of the drive
8. Reboot computer without bootdisk
9. At C:\> type: cd i386
10. Then use C:\i386>WINNT.EXE
You must create the boot floppy's, otherwise it will not boot (at 3.1)
11. Reboot the machine when setup asks for it
12. Now the 2nd fase of text-setup loads and go through it normally and reboot
13. When the machine reboots, shut it down and open the harddrive image file
14. Copy initial.inf & setup.inf from \winnt\system32 to your harddrive.
15. Open the 2 files and replace the following line STF_PROCESSOR = I586 in both files in an plain text editor (notepad adds some characters, use wordpad or notepad++).
16. Replace the 2 files in these 2 locations: %systemdrive%\windows\system32 and %systemdrive%\$win_nt$.~ls
17. Now save the harddrive image file and then boot the machine again and go through the GUI stage of the setup as normal

From Rob's MCB

[betaluva]

@trustBA,

1. Boot with an Windows 95 bootdisk
2. Use FDISK to create a partition
3. Reboot
4. Format the partition with: A:\>Format C: /u /s
5. Now make a dir on C:\ using the command C:\>md i386
6. Copy all files to this dir from the R:\i386 drive: C:\>copy R:\i386\*.* C:\i386
7. If it fails on banana.an_ (banana.ani -> CD-Rom Driver), shutdown the VM, open the harddrive image and just copy the i386 folder into the root of the drive
8. Reboot computer without bootdisk
9. At C:\> type: cd i386
10. Then use C:\i386>WINNT.EXE
You must create the boot floppy's, otherwise it will not boot (at 3.1)
11. Reboot the machine when setup asks for it
12. Now the 2nd fase of text-setup loads and go through it normally and reboot
13. When the machine reboots, shut it down and open the harddrive image file
14. Copy initial.inf & setup.inf from \winnt\system32 to your harddrive.
15. Open the 2 files and replace the following line STF_PROCESSOR = I586 in both files in an plain text editor (notepad adds some characters, use wordpad or notepad++).
16. Replace the 2 files in these 2 locations: %systemdrive%\windows\system32 and %systemdrive%\$win_nt$.~ls
17. Now save the harddrive image file and then boot the machine again and go through the GUI stage of the setup as normal

From Rob's MCB

what do you do if you dont have any medium density disks?

* if i read the initial.inf in the i386 folder correctly then this build supports Alpha,Mips and PowerPc as well as x86?

[Pwned]

@trustBA,

snippage

From Rob's MCB

what do you do if you dont have any medium density disks?

Boot from WinPE (http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/).

[betaluva]

no, i mean ,can you skip creating the 3 boot floppies? when i try i get the "this is not a medium density disk" message