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Partitioning during the initial install?
It should show you how much space you have to install in. And when you format (NTFS) you can choose all of the disk or just a part. You will be queried how big to make the partition. I have never formatted FAT32 so I am unsure where you will be given that option. FAT16 I see but then you are restricted to 2GB.

partitioning 20 GB harddisk for NT installation.
Andrew Rossmann andyr...@ntsource.no_junk.com comp sys ibm pc hardware storage Neal Matthis wrote: I have bought a 30GB drive and I want to install a dual boot Win98/Win2K system. Now I will want to install Win2K on an NTFS5 partition. So this dual boot system will have one OS on one partition, and the other OS on

Bug#465176: installation-reports: Install report: successful after ...
Doug Knox MS-MVP dk...@mvps.org microsoft public windowsxp basics When you install from within a Windows OS, you won't get the partitioning/formatting options, you can only choose what partition to install to. In addition to booting from the CD, you can use a Win9x boot disk and use X:\I386\WINNT to start setup.

Bug#468217: installation-reports: On Acer Extensa 5220 the Delete ...
You can use DFSee for setting partition types if you like. basically I ran into trouble trying to choose advanced partitioning for the installation. to begin You can't get at them without first mounting them. finally, I can't seem to find a way to add the partition where I wish to install Suse into OS/2's Boot

extending the C: partition
J'ai plu demarrer l'install, mais, lors du 1er reboot (après formattage et copie des fichiers d'installation), je me suis retrouvé sur mon XP "principal". En regardant la nouvelle partition crée, je vois bien la partition (pirmaire, mais ca n'a pas chamboulé mon XP, ouf) et les fichier, dont, le boot.ini qui

Partitioning today's big HDs
Unfortunately it arrived with one partition. My first inclination is to slice up the HD like my other WinME machines. Looking for recommendations. What should I do (prep) first? Make a boot floppy, FDisk the drive, format etc? First, buy a copy of XP on CD. Dell has not given you any ability of repairing XP except

Bug#468490: Package: debian-40r3-sparc-CD-1.iso CD installation ...
JAX gives you an idea that 6GB might be useful for the partition you want to run the OS out of. But you could get by with less if you aren't installing apps to the partition, or you could require a lot more space if you are installing a large number of apps. If you want to play the partitioning game I'd suggest you

install Partitioning option in Oracle 9.2.0.6?
... "Marcus Kitos" <marcus.ki...@us.army.mil> wrote in <#cHiEJ40AHA.1848@tkmsftngp05>: Recently bought Partition Commander so I could partition my drives. Part of the installation process involves rebooting to update system files. My computer never makes it through the update process -- it always locks up. Always.

Help needed w/WinXP partitioning
I will soon have an OEM install of SBS 2003 in which they are going to put the OS in a partition of it's own. This will be a RAID 1 configuration. Can I safely partition the drive more after I receive the server without trashing anything? It has been suggested to make a data partition and a page file partition away

Question about partitioning for Win98/Win2K dual boot
The yaboot boot loader used on PCI-era PowerMac systems requires a special Apple_Bootstrap partition, created by this method. Package: partman-partitioning Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: debian-installer Installed-Size: 380 Maintainer: Debian Install System Team

Bug#342234: install: Partitioning usability (LVM in particular)
If THAT'S tricky, I'd recommend NOT doing the OS install yourself. My opinion, of course!) I'm assuming that it is better to set up all of the partitioning as part of the O/S install routine even though it looks like only C: needs to be done initially and that the rest could be done later in WinXP's Disk Management

migrating xp installation to virtual pc on vista using backup and
Create a primary partition of 10GB minimum. Format it NTFS, not quick. Install Windows XP. Install SP1. Perform the changes listed in the Microsoft article above. Use Disk Management in Windows to perform additional partitioning and formatting operations. If you /really/ must use the 2.5GB hard drive,

windows/linux partitioning
It points to boot partition where GRUB can find it's files. It can be separate boot partition, or as we use one installation for that purpose it will point to installation that is used to store GRUB files that are currently used. http://www.howtoforge.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-944.html the answer by

Partitioning an OEM install of SBS 2003
Symptom: after getting through the whole install questionnaire, shortly after the install actually starts I get this message: "Attempt to read sectors 2-3 outside of partition on /dev/hda" That popped up twice with Ignore/Cancel as the choices; then a similar message referencing sectors 0-7, also twice.

Moving from W2k to XP with a Big HD
Mike Meyer m...@mired.org fa freebsd questions Mike Hogsett <michael.hogs...@sri.com> types: Why does there appear to be no "true" bsd partitioning available with the 4.3 install floppy? It's still there - it's just not documented, because it's causing more problems and needed less as time goes on.

Bug#364409: Partitioning failure during install of Sarge 3.1r2
I am trying to install Linux on a system with Windows NT, and am having difficulties with partitioning. The system in question is a Digital 5400, 200 MHz Pentium Pro--I've stocked it with 128 Mbytes of RAM, and have replaced the 2 Gbyte hard drive it came with with an 8.4 Gbyte hard drive (IDE).

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
Is it advisable to install SQL Server / WSS (I mean the base software, not the actual databases, portals) in the OS partition? Sure, if you make sure to allocate What is the best partitioning schema when I want to install besides the w2k3 OS SQL Server, SharePoint services and virtual server 2005 R2? Thanks.

OK, let's hammer out this partitioning thing completely
The reason I would like to move Vista to the C: partition is that Vista insists on depositing various things on the C: drive even though its home is on H:. That's why I can't simply wipe the C: drive and go through about 20 hours of re-installation. What's already there as put there by Vista would be wiped out.

XP install loop while in Safe Mode
Joey Hess jo...@debian.org linux debian bugs dist linux debian maint boot Scotland O. Clark wrote: Using 3.1r2 (and 3.1r1), when install is writing changes to the partition tables using ext3 the partitioning utility either locks the system up altogether or spontaneously reboots it. System: ECS P4M800PRO-M v1.0

VxVM - why? (was: Solaris 8 install, partitioning and VxVM)
My OS/2 boot is always F:, making it easier to redo things updisk. note there are no primary partitions, don't ask me why -- it hasn't really been a problem, except it does seem to irritate FDISK, which never fails to complain whenever I exit. also -- when the installation sent me into the advanced partitioning