Minimal Install of Windows NT v4 - Help & Advice

This is a discussion about Minimal Install of Windows NT v4 - Help & Advice in the Windows Software category; Just looking at putting together a low end PC to be used as a server for ICS running Win NT, and have alot of small size hard drives lying around. Whats the minimum install of Win NT, and what what size will it increase to if I put on say service pack 4.

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Just looking at putting together a low end PC to be used as a server for ICS
running Win NT, and have alot of small size hard drives lying around.
Whats the minimum install of Win NT, and what what size will it increase to
if I put on say service pack 4.
 
Scott

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You could probably get away with 500MB for the installation (including swap file) and it work ok. However, I have seen NT 4 installs swell up to 400+MB in the WINNT directory alone after a few service packs and some other programs/services. If you can use a 1GB drive, that should be great.
 
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