You can squeeze  NT 4.0 on a ZIP drive but you have to kludge around
with the DOSNET.INF file (I386 install directory on the NT 4.0 CD).
You'll need to copy that to a local drive and edit it, then have NT use
it during the install - there's a [SpaceRequirements] stanza which
specified the minimal amount of space required. You'll also need to
remove some of the files that get copied to the NT partition (i.e. OS2
subsystem, etc.).  You need to do an absolute bare minimum install (VGA
drivers, no wallpaper/games, etc.).  It took a few attempts but I was
able to get this to work but, unfortunately did not document it very
well.... I think you can find more information on doing this in the NT
4.0 resource kit.

Regards...
Tim Pittson
tpittson AT himail.hcc DOT com

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>From:  Donald Moxley[SMTP:moxley AT US.IBM DOT COM]
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>Subject:       ADSM Creating a repair partition on removable media (NT 4.0)
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>>I am trying to get the procedure working which is described in the IBM
>READBOOKS.
>> "WINDOWS NT RECOVERY WITH ADSM". They explain in detail how to configure
>> a repair partition on a IOMEGA ZIP drive to get this running when the main
>>NT
>partition
>> is lost. Via this repair partition the ADSM client is started and the
>original partition is
>> restored.  It sounds good, but I do not know how to install a NT40 system
>>on
>a
>>100 Mbyte IOMEGA ZIP partition. The installation of NT40 aborts with the
>message
>>that the partition must be at least 127 MByte. The procedure in the REDBOOKS
>looks
>> as if somebody had really done this. Does anybody know how to handle this
>>??
>>Heinz-Joachim Staerke
>>MAX-PLANCK INSTITUTE STUTTGART
>Hello, the version of the 'Bare Metal Restore' redbook you are looking at was
>a
>work in process ('embryonic') copy that was being developed in the NT 3.51
>timeframe.
>As you have observed, NT 4 requires larger drive capacity, in the case of
>removable
>devices something like JAZ or possibly Syquest 230mb.  Another option is to
>save those
>old 250+mb harddrives that must be starting to collect dust and putting
>emergency
>systems on them, or just carve out a partition on a second drive already in
>the
>machine.
>BTW, there is a great article in ENT magazine about why you probably always
>want
>to have somekind of  'NT Emergency Partition' available. Check out 'Hardware
>is
>Half
>the Battle, Building for Disaster' at
> http://192.131.131.50/ent/archive/1997/may21/052121.html-ssi
>
>Don Moxley,  IBM Storage Systems Division
>