setup dos winnt exe

In the old days I could boot to DOS and run winnt.exe to kick-off a Windows installation. I've read winnt.exe is gone for Vista, but I'm wondering if it will still be possible to run a setup program for Visat in DOS. I have not found an winnt.exe equivalent in Vista. I can only get a fresh install by booting from the Vista DVD.
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Apologies for all the typos. I'm up very late.

On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 01:36:05 -0400, Scott Allen wrote:

In the old days I could boot to DOS and run winnt.exe to kick-off a Windows installation. I've read winnt.exe is gone for Vista, but I'm wondering if it will still be possible to run a setup program for Visat in DOS. I have not found an winnt.exe equivalent in Vista. I can only get a fresh install by booting from the Vista DVD.
--s

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LOL - I know the feeling. Got to bed at 4am last night...
Right, yeh Winnt.exe has gone but I believe that you can't use DOS in Vista... not sure if I'm 100% on that one... but I'm pretty sure there were some major reforms in terms of using DOS. Might want to wait for another reply on this one as I'm pretty foggy about it, but winnt.exe has deffo. gone.
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Apologies for all the typos. I'm up very late.

On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 01:36:05 -0400, Scott Allen scott@nospam.odetocode.com> wrote:
In the old days I could boot to DOS and run winnt.exe to kick-off a Windows installation. I've read winnt.exe is gone for Vista, but I'm wondering if it will still be possible to run a setup program for Visat in DOS. I have not found an winnt.exe equivalent in Vista. I can only get a fresh install by booting from the Vista DVD.
--s
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Text based setup has been replaced by WinPE - Windows Preinstallation Environment. The only thing similarly close to DOS in Windows Vista is probably the Command Prompt which is used to interface with MS DOS. -- -- Andre Windows Connected | http://www.windowsconnected.com Extended64 | http://www.extended64.com Blog | http://www.extended64.com/blogs/andre http://spaces.msn.com/members/adacosta
"Scott Allen" wrote in message

In the old days I could boot to DOS and run winnt.exe to kick-off a Windows installation. I've read winnt.exe is gone for Vista, but I'm wondering if it will still be possible to run a setup program for Visat in DOS. I have not found an winnt.exe equivalent in Vista. I can only get a fresh install by booting from the Vista DVD.
--s -- Scott http://www.OdeToCode.com/blogs/scott/

I don't understand why Microsoft can't (or won't) implement a full-fledged VDM (Virtual DOS Machine) on the NT platform. There was one in OS/2 (version 3 and later, which was full 32-bit), and it simply used the Virtual86 environment built in the 386 and later processors... Since the code (both for DOS and VDM) belongs to MS, there's no real reason not to add it besides (or instead of) the crippled NTVDM. -- Pierre Szwarc Paris, France PGP key ID 0x75B5779B ------------------------------------------------ Multitasking: Reading in the bathroom ! ------------------------------------------------
"Zack Whittaker" a écrit dans le message de news: %23oNvKxUYGHA.3604@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... | LOL - I know the feeling. Got to bed at 4am last night... | | Right, yeh Winnt.exe has gone but I believe that you can't use DOS in | Vista... not sure if I'm 100% on that one... but I'm pretty sure there were | some major reforms in terms of using DOS. Might want to wait for another | reply on this one as I'm pretty foggy about it, but winnt.exe has deffo. | gone.

Trying to start a Vista installation from DOS real mode doesn't mean running DOS under Vista, it means booting DOS and trying to get a Vista installation to start. This isn't exactly a frivolous request. Last month I had to play this trick in order to reinstall Windows XP on a friend's machine. The BIOS wouldn't boot a USB CD drive but would boot a USB floppy drive, the Windows XP setup floppies would finish reading the 6th floppy and then BSOD instead of reading the Windows XP CD, and I had to jump through a ton of hoops before getting an installation to start.
"Pierre Szwarc" wrote in message

I don't understand why Microsoft can't (or won't) implement a full-fledged VDM (Virtual DOS Machine) on the NT platform. There was one in OS/2 (version 3 and later, which was full 32-bit), and it simply used the Virtual86 environment built in the 386 and later processors... Since the code (both for DOS and VDM) belongs to MS, there's no real reason not to add it besides (or instead of) the crippled NTVDM. -- Pierre Szwarc Paris, France PGP key ID 0x75B5779B ------------------------------------------------ Multitasking: Reading in the bathroom ! ------------------------------------------------
"Zack Whittaker" a $BqD(Brit dans le message de news: %23oNvKxUYGHA.3604@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... | LOL - I know the feeling. Got to bed at 4am last night... | | Right, yeh Winnt.exe has gone but I believe that you can't use DOS in | Vista... not sure if I'm 100% on that one... but I'm pretty sure there were | some major reforms in terms of using DOS. Might want to wait for another | reply on this one as I'm pretty foggy about it, but winnt.exe has deffo. | gone.

Oh, sorry, I misunderstood. Still, the VDM request isn't frivolous either. I have clients who're still running W95 because they have old software running that doesn't have modern replacement. -- Pierre Szwarc Paris, France PGP key ID 0x75B5779B ------------------------------------------------ Multitasking: Reading in the bathroom ! ------------------------------------------------
"Norman Diamond" a ecrit dans le message de news: upMezWcYGHA.4988@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... | Trying to start a Vista installation from DOS real mode doesn't mean running | DOS under Vista, it means booting DOS and trying to get a Vista installation | to start. This isn't exactly a frivolous request. Last month I had to play | this trick in order to reinstall Windows XP on a friend's machine. The BIOS | wouldn't boot a USB CD drive but would boot a USB floppy drive, the Windows | XP setup floppies would finish reading the 6th floppy and then BSOD instead | of reading the Windows XP CD, and I had to jump through a ton of hoops | before getting an installation to start.

will will be kicked off from windows PE now, there is no more starting the install from dos as the installation files are all packed into a WIM "Scott Allen" wrote in message

In the old days I could boot to DOS and run winnt.exe to kick-off a Windows installation. I've read winnt.exe is gone for Vista, but I'm wondering if it will still be possible to run a setup program for Visat in DOS. I have not found an winnt.exe equivalent in Vista. I can only get a fresh install by booting from the Vista DVD.
--s -- Scott http://www.OdeToCode.com/blogs/scott/