You probably have too many drivers in the $oem$ directory (everything there
gets copied to your hard drive, whether you need it or not). Either delete
some stuff there, or use the new unattended 4 version, which allows you
to have a primary partition size of 4 GB.

- Markus

>-- Originalnachricht --
>To: "DE-LOS-SANTOS,ORIOL (HP-Spain,ex1)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: Unattended List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [Unattended] Problems installing XP
>From: "Patrick J. LoPresti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: 25 Mar 2004 14:26:09 -0500
>
>
>"DE-LOS-SANTOS,ORIOL (HP-Spain,ex1)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> We have been successfully installing W2k. Today I tried installing
>> WXP and got an error telling me that the partition where I was
>> trying to install was too small ... I have the 2000MB initial
>> partitioning that Unattended uses and don't know how to change
>> that. I understand the 2000MB limit was due to the DOS boot.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>
>Upgrade to a more recent version of Unattended.
>
>2G is the limit for a FAT16 partition under MS-DOS 6.22.  You can try
>increasing it to 2047M, which might just be enough.  But really, you
>need to change your DOS.
>
>Starting with version 4.0, Unattended switched to FreeDOS, which
>supports FAT32.  We also now create a 4000M initial partition by
>default.
>
>You can also roll your own boot disk using MS-DOS 7 or 8, which also
>support FAT32.
>
>I believe our new DOS boot disk should work with the old install
>share.  But I am not sure.  The new Linux boot disk definitely
>requires an updated install share.
>
> - Pat
>
 



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