Probably best to install on NT 3.5 with the options that you want and copy the master database over.

I forget if the sort order is in the registry, it probably isn’t, as Sybase stored damned near everything in master.dat

Thank you very much for sharing all this knowledge, I’m having a problem, in the SQL 6.5 installation the order id 54 was configured, would there be any way to change it to the order id 52?

Thx.

[SQL SERVER] The database you are attempting to LOAD was DUMPed under a different sort order ID (52) than the one currently running on this server (54), and a least one of them is a non-binarry sort order.

51 Dictionary order, case-sensitive, for use with 1252 character set.
52 Dictionary order, case-insensitive, for use with 1252 character set.
53 Dictionary order, case-insensitive, uppercase preference, for use with 1252 character set.
54 Dictionary order, case-insensitive, accent-insensitive, for use with 1252 character set.

Thank you very much in adv.

If my life really depended on SQL Server 6.5 I would be using NT 3.51 on either native hardware or on VMWare/KVM. But for the sake of validation, I would try running it on a newer OS. The disk caching and drivers really don’t compare to the later OSes.