Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 11:37:14 -0400
From: "Cooper, Greg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: fdisk question (non-Lib specific)
I was afraid someone would ask. Here's the short version of it:
My automated/unattended installation of NT4 requires a fat16 primary
partition. No problem except that fat16 from a dos6.22 fdisk is limited to
2.047GB. After NT is installed, the remainder of the drive can be
partitioned as needed but you are still stuck with the 2GB C:. Using the
"extendOEMpartition" option, I can tell the installation to use the primary
partition (2GB) and any free space following it up to the 8GB limit as the
new C:. If there is a second partition on the drive and it is immediately
following the primary partition (which is where fdisk will place it) then
the extendOEMpartition is useless for creating a 4GB C: and a 2GB D: in this
way. I need a 2GB primary, xGB free space, and then a 2GB extended
partition in that order.
My solution now is tedious at best. Please hold on to the bar for this
one...
1. Boot with a fat32 boot disk. Create a 4GB primary partition.
2. Boot with a fat16 boot disk. Create a 10MB primary partition and a 2GB
extended partition.
3. Boot with a fat32 boot disk. Delete the 10MB primary partition.
4. Boot with a fat16 boot disk. Delete the 4GB (non-DOS) partition.
Create a 2GB primary partition.
The 10MB primary from the fat16 disk is needed in order for dos6.22 to let
me create the fat16 extended partition. Fat32 then sees 2 primary
partitions and lets me delete one of them. Fat16 sees the fat32 primary as
a non-DOS partition and lets me delete it as well thus leaving a single
extended partition at the end of the disk and the ability to create a 2GB
primary at the beginning.
I told you it was tedious.
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