This is starting to get long. I'll send this mail, and then a subsequent one dealing with these partitioning issues.
Curiouser and curiouser.
So, I now did these steps:
* do a production install, as normal, until it gets past the convert to ntfs stage
* reboot into unbeta, and try to install, accepting all defaults (Y at the partition prompt). Gratuitously (?) reboot immediately after the drive has been partitioned.
* boot into unbeta, when it gets to the partitioning, say no. Now it says there is a 2G (?!) partition:
ABOUT TO PARTITION THE FIRST HARD DRIVE! WARNING: This operation erases the disk! Are you sure [YN] N
Current partition table:
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-152627.835 megabytes Disk label type: msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.031 2000.280 primary ntfs boot
Choose partitioning scheme.
1) Do nothing (continue) 2) Run partitioning tool manually (experts only) 3) Whole disk C: 4) 4G C:, rest D: 5) 12G C:, 5G D:, rest E: X) Exit this program Select: [12345X] 3
ABOUT TO PARTITION THE FIRST HARD DRIVE! WARNING: This operation erases the disk! Are you sure [YN] Y Making device /dev/hda Making device /dev/hda1 Installing /usr/lib/freedos-mbr.bin as MBR...done. Creating c:\netinst...done. Creating c:\netinst\logs...done. Scanning for OS directories under Z:\os... Please choose the OS to install:
* reboot (note the explicit selection of "3" above, to use the whole disk as C:)
* Now I again say "N" to the partitioning prompt:
ABOUT TO PARTITION THE FIRST HARD DRIVE! WARNING: This operation erases the disk! Are you sure [YN] N
Current partition table:
Disk geometry for /dev/hda: 0.000-152627.835 megabytes Disk label type: msdos Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags 1 0.031 4000.561 primary ntfs boot
Choose partitioning scheme.
1) Do nothing (continue) 2) Run partitioning tool manually (experts only) 3) Whole disk C: 4) 4G C:, rest D: 5) 12G C:, 5G D:, rest E: X) Exit this program Select: [12345X] 1
* Now it is 4G (as I had thought it ought to be from the start)
* indeed, the install works properly from this point on. Windows installs, converts from FAT32 to NTFS, etc.
Strange, eh?
Jordan
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