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Preparing for Operating System Setup
Your system’s primary system disk drive and any additional disk drives were formatted and
partitioned before shipment. In Explorer or My Computer, you can right-click a disk drive and
click Properties to display the drive’s partition size and file system format. To view partition
and format information for all disk drives, you can use Disk Administrator on a Windows NT
system or the fdisk command on a Windows 95 or Windows 98 system. See the operating
system documentation and Help for more information on these tools.
The operating system and associated system software is pre-installed on the system’s primary
hard disk drive. Intergraph Computer Systems installed the following system software:
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Driver software for the mouse
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Driver software for the installed video display adapter
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Driver software for the on-board sound processor
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Driver software for the network adapter (optional)
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Core networking software and the NetBEUI protocol (Windows NT)
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Service Pack software (Windows NT)
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InterSite software
You must follow the operating system Setup process to prepare Microsoft Windows NT,
Windows 95, or Windows 98 for use. Before you go through Setup, have the following
documents available:
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Microsoft’s Start Here (for Windows NT) or Welcome to Windows (Windows 95 or
Windows 98).
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Documents delivered with any expansion cards or additional peripheral devices purchased
from Intergraph Computer Systems.
Get and record the following information:
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Your name, and the name of your
company or organization:
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For a system running Windows NT, the
CD Key from the Windows NT CD case,
or the Product ID Number from Start Here
or the registration card:
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For a system running Windows, the
Product ID Number from Welcome to
Windows or the registration card: