
			INSTALLING THE MP SPECIFICATION HAL
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The MP Specification is a specification administered by Intel
that provides an industry standard multiprocessor platform.  To
install and run the MP Specification HAL with Windows NT**, you
need an MP Specification compliant system.  You can install the MP
specification HAL either during regular Windows NT installation
or later, when you have a running Windows NT system.

This version of the HAL will run with the July 1993 release and
Service Packs 1 and 2 of the Windows NT Operating System.

INSTALLING THE MP SPECIFICATION HAL DURING WINDOWS NT INSTALLATION:
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To install the MP Specification HAL during regular Windows NT
installation, you need the Windows NT OS installation disk and
CD provided by Microsoft or your hardware manufacturer and the
MP Specification HAL Installation Disk. To install the MP
Specification HAL, you need to do the following:

- Insert the Windows NT installation disk in the drive and the NT
installation CD in the CD-ROM. Power up your computer.

- Press <ENTER> to continue Windows NT installation when the
sign-on welcome message comes up.

- Choose "Custom Setup" (by pressing "C").  The install program
will scan for SCSI adapters first.  The install program then
checks your system and comes up with a list of system resources.

- Choose "Computer" in this resource list.  You get a list of
available options for your computer.

- Choose "Other" in this list.  The install program asks you to
insert the manufacturer provided install disk. Insert the MP
Specification HAL Installation Disk and press <ENTER>

- Use the regular Windows NT installation process from here on.
The Windows NT install program will now copy all other files
needed for Windows NT from the installation CD provided by
Microsoft.  It will automatically copy the multiprocessor
version of the Windows NT kernel that is needed to run the MP
specification HAL.


INSTALLING THE MP SPECIFICATION HAL ON AN EXISTING WINDOWS NT SYSTEM:
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You can also install the MP Specification HAL on an MP
Specification compliant system after regular NT installation.
You may be currently running either the uniprocessor version or
the multiprocessor version of NT.

To install the MP Specification HAL on an existing uniprocessor
NT installation:

The MP Specification HAL requires the multiprocessor version of
the NT kernel provided by Microsoft or your hardware
manufacturer on the NT installation CD.  You need to copy the
multiprocessor NT kernel to your systems directory as follows:

- Open a DOS command shell and go to your NT systems directory.
This is the "system32" directory under your NT installation
directory (you can find the location of the NT installation
directory by typing "echo %SystemRoot%" from a DOS command
shell.  You need to go to the directory: %SystemRoot%\system32).

- Save your current uniprocessor kernel file "ntoskrnl.exe" to
another file:

   copy ntoskrnl.exe ntkrnlup.exe

- Save the current HAL you are running:
   
   copy hal.dll halsaved.dll

- Expand/Copy the MP kernel from the Windows NT installation CD.
For example, if your NT installation CD is mapped as drive e:
you need to type the following from the DOS command shell:
	  
   expand e:\i386\ntkrnlmp.ex_ ntkrnlmp.exe
   copy ntkrnlmp.exe ntoskrnl.exe

- Copy the MP specification HAL "mpshal11.dll" from the MP
Specification HAL Installation disk:

   copy a:\mpshal11.dll .
   copy mpshal11.dll hal.dll

- Reboot your computer

To install the MP Specification HAL on an existing
multiprocessor NT installation:

If you are currently running the multiprocessor version of the
Windows NT kernel, you only need to copy the MP Specification
HAL in the NT systems directory.

- Open a DOS command shell and go to your NT systems directory.
This is the "system32" directory under your NT installation
directory(you can find the location of the NT installation
directory by typing echo %SystemRoot% from a DOS command shell.
You need to go to the directory: %SystemRoot%\system32).

- Save the current HAL you are running:

   copy hal.dll halsaved.dll

- Copy the MP Specification HAL "mpshal11.dll" from the MP
Specification HAL Installation disk:

   copy a:\mpshal11.dll .
   copy mpshal11.dll hal.dll

- Reboot your computer

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** Windows NT is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
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