Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 12:58:05 -0400
From: "Cooper, Greg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: fdisk question (non-Lib specific)
This is supposed to be a rather automated install for the masses who don't
have the hardware to install Win2000. I can't justify buying 5,000 copies
of PartMagic for an OS that is being phased out via attrition.
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Subject: RE: fdisk question (non-Lib specific)
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 09:21:10 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: RE: fdisk question (non-Lib specific)
Why not just create an fat 16 partition, install NT, Get everything
working, convert it to NTFS after NT has been installed and working. Then
run partition magic and extend the rest of that partition to the entire
disk. Thus one big partition.
Andy
> 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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