Hardware Requirements for Remote Boot of Windows NT 4.0

• Microsoft Windows NT Server version 4.0

SUMMARY

This article describes the hardware requirements for setting up a remote-boot server and clients under Windows NT 4.0.

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Network Requirements

Server and clients must be on the same subnet.

Network Interface Cards (NICs)

SERVER: The Windows NT 4.0 Server can accommodate any NIC listed in the Windows NT 4.0 hardware compatibility list (HCL) that supports DLC and NetBEUI.

CLIENTS: For information on client-NIC compatibility, please see the following article here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q158455
   TITLE     : Supported Network Adapters for Remote-Boot Clients and WinNT
               4.0

System Requirements

SERVER: The server's hardware must be listed in the HCL for Windows NT 4.0.

CLIENTS: The clients' hardware must be listed in the HCL for the operating system being used.

Disk Space Requirements on the Server

0perating System                        Space Required

LAN Manager version 2.2c for DOS        5.1 MB
MS-DOS 3.30                             0.7 MB
MS-DOS 4.01                             1.5 MB
MS-DOS 5.00                             2.8 MB
MS-DOS 6.x                              5.9 MB
WINDOWS 3.1                            12.4 MB
WINDOWS 95                              2.0 MB
WINDOWS 95 SBS                           90 MB