Lots of the NT gurus have a fixed scenario in mind and
speak to it. That is also true of the Minsai book
that Sean and I were praising awhile back (Mastering
Windows NT thisNthatetc). You really have to be
careful to keep whatever they say in the context of
their discussion. Minsai, for example, comes at NT
from the direction of a network administrator. I'm
not familiar with the book you're quoting, but it's
clear he has his own viewpoint.
This is not only not bad, it's inevitable. It's
impossible to cover the details of NT (or for that
matter any other OS) without adopting a point of
view. You just have to be aware of it. I would
hazard a guess that you will look a long time before
you find a book that concentrates on "How To Convert
Your Mac Experience To NT 4.0 in Seventeen Easy Lessons"
or some such<gg>. As an aside to this, MAC how to
books are a lot easier to write because the users
are much more nearly homogeneous than NT users are.
If nothing else, they're uniformly biased against
Windows <g>. I mean WinDoze, of course (as a bit
of objective evidence).
On the other hand, we here can tailor the book to fit <G>.
Keep asking. You're only up to lesson 8 <ggg>.
But I swear to you there is no such thing as a boot
of NT from a floppy disk. Nope. Zip. Nada. Nil.
No can do. Best you can do is repair, like described.
Have the following floppies:
1. Emergency repair disk (not bootable, contains backup of
registry in condensed form, same as in Winnt\repair
directory).
2. Three-disk set of NT install boot floppies. Can be
created from the nt install app on the CD (I forget
it's name and the switches to do it, but it's in
the documentation; don't need the resource kit).
As for some of the other stuff, yes, eventually you
want to have a backup of the boot sectors on your
hard drive (what Diskprobe and Disksave do; these
are Resource Kit utilities, BTW).
BUT these backups are not critical until you do more
advanced things, BECAUSE the NT install disks can
recreate the boot environment in their own primitive
way.
Sorry this is sketchy, but keep learning and it will
become clearer. Also, DO NOT hesitate to ask. The
more specific the question, the easier to answer.
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