Re: Partition sizes on NT4 Server

["Paul Gordon" <paul_gordon@xxxxxxx>]

>
>     NT4 server is a bit old now! 
<grin>
>

Indeed.. although another word for that could be "mature" :-)

Seriously though, it's horses for courses, - NT4 *is* still a pretty good,
solid & reliable OS. (after 5 years of service packs!) If it does the
job 
required then why not...


> >
> >My aim is to have the following partitions
> >C:\ 10Gig
>
>    Unless you have a *very* late NT4 installation disk
you can't do
>this.  This is a NT4 limitation.
>

Do you know something I don't?? - to my knowledge there has never been a
build of the NT4 installer that could handle >4GB system partitions
during 
install...

The reason for this limitation is that the NT4 installer uses a mini-file
system driver during the text-mode portion of setup to access the disks.
The 
file-system driver that is used only supports the FAT filesystem. - That is
why NT4 always installs a FAT partition *even* when you select to format an
NTFS partition during installation, and then converts it once the text-mode
portion of setup is complete.

Interstingly, I believe that the limitation *only* applies because of this
setup issue, and that it therefore *should* be possible to get NT4 onto a
larger partition by ghosting it or by restoring, or whatever... (never 
actually tried it though).

Paul G.


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