Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 10:16:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: fdisk question (non-Lib specific)
Well in that case you just need 1 copy of ghost enterprise edition. It
will expand the partition and dump NT. Takes 15-30 minutes per operating
system. That way you just pay for 1 ghost EE and NT Workstation. Just
make sure you download NewSID (free).
Andy
> 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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> Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2000 09:21:10 -0700 (PDT)
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> Subject: RE: fdisk question (non-Lib specific)
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> 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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