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Installing a Serial Mouse
Follow these steps to install a Serial Mouse on the terminal.
1. Edit the boot.ini file, which is located in the root of the C drive.
a. Open Windows NT Explorer
b. Go to the
View menu and select Folder Options.
c. Select the
View tab.
d. Scroll down until you see a folder that is labeled
Hidden Files.
Make sure the button labeled
Show All Files is selected and then
select OK.
e. Select the C drive root directory. Scroll down until you find the
file named boot.ini and select it.
f. Open the
File menu and then select Properties.
g. Uncheck the box labeled
Read Only and then select OK.
h. Open the boot.ini file with Notepad. It should have the
following entries:
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows
NT Workstation Version 4.00" /NoSerialMice
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINNT="Windows
NT Workstation Version 4.00 [VGA mode]" /basevideo
/sos
2. Delete the text /NoSerialMice. The file should now look like:
3. Save the file and then restart the terminal with the serial mouse
connected.
After the terminal restarts it recognizes the mouse and installs the
supporting drivers. The drivers are located on the hard drive at
C:\install\i386. If for some reason they are not on the hard drive,
connect the terminal to a network and share a CD-ROM drive with the
NT Operating System disk installed, or copy the files needed to the
network.
