Hi Neal, Do you have a CD-burner? If you do, you should be able to burn that Windows NT service pack onto it using a common standard format, and since your Orange Micro card gives you the ability to "see" the CD-ROM drive in Windows, you should be able to run the service pack from there.
My experience is that Windows NT with no service pack is not very much fun, and a lot of things don't work all that well until you go to at least SP4, but SP6a was the best and last major update available. It may be that NT will not see the Apple side of things until you install SP6a. These Orange Micro cards must have some cool software bundled with them. NT4 Workstation cannot natively "see" any apple partition without 3rd party software. The Server version can allow you to create an Appleshare volume that works reasonably well. Failing that, you need to find someone with broadband who can download the "network" SP6a (it is about 30-odd meg from memory) and burn it to a CD for you. If you get really stuck, e-mail me off-list and I will send you a copy of the original NT4SP6a CD (remember I am in Australia though!) Apologies for the following - it is OT, and shows my true heritage as a Pee-Cee guy.... Please also note the following: 1. There are two versions of the Windows NT service pack - a standard encryption version and a high-encryption version. If you get the standard version, and upgrade your Internet Explorer to 5.x or above, you will not be able to re-install this service pack. Only the high-encrypt version will work. [NT4 will require you to re-install the service pack after adding a feature from the original CD at a later date] 2. Please ensure that if your Internet connection is not protected by a firewall that you do something about that real quick. NT4 is not quite as vulnerable as Win2K or XP, but if you have a "direct" connection to a broadband link from the NT system, you WILL have a problem. It will just be a matter of time ... oh the joys of Windoze. Norton Internet Security does a reasonable job, as does the free ZoneAlarm software. Good luck Gavin -- PCI-PowerMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Sonnet & PowerLogix Upgrades - start at $169 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> PCI-PowerMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/pci-powermacs.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive:<http://www.mail-archive.com/pci-powermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
