You need to add the dell drivers for the hard disk when booting off the cd
or nt boot disks. This will allow the NT setup to get arround the problem
and let you specify a larger boot disk. You should be OK installing onto a
2gig partition and then updating the NT hard disk drivers which will allow
you to see the remaineder of the disk. I had to do this on some of our
optiplex hardware.
Good luck
Richard
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From: HADI, ALI (ALI)** CTR ** [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 03 September 2001 10:20
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: installing NT
Thanks Eric, it's what I had in mind to do this eve- I'll try to have fun
doing that
good tips
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De: Erich Voigt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Date: lundi 3 septembre 2001 11:16
À: NT System Admin Issues
Objet: RE: installing NT
Hi!
We are GMT+2 so I am only now reading your conversation!
You don't need any fdisk. a blank disk is best place to start. Boot from CD
(or 3 stiffies) and it will self detect that nothing is set up.
It will then ask you to define partitions and when you play along, it will
give you the option to use the whole disk as the partition BUT (I think this
has changed but my server CD build 1381 I think) will allow a maximum of 2GB
as the first partition else you get that message you mentioned.
You can increase this partition later using Partition Magic or the like -
there might be other suggestions but I set up our drives as c=2 or 1.5(OS),
f=±50%of remainder for APPS and R:=the rest for Data unless the installation
requires different.
Then remember to do the sup pack (6a) before trying to do fancy NIC's and
Video drivers.
Good Luck
Erich
-----Original Message-----
From: HADI, ALI (ALI)** CTR ** [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, September 03, 2001 9:23 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: installing NT
I'll go over it again tonight and will beat it. Any tips you give me will
be grateful. By the way am designing this "wonderful" dual boot system
with w2k, both clients and both servers on 2 PCs in anticipation of a
company roll out soon ,
thanks
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De: Ryan McBride [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Date: lundi 3 septembre 2001 09:11
À: NT System Admin Issues
Objet: RE: installing NT
Ok start back at the fdisk. You have obviously done something incorrect in
FDISK
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From: HADI, ALI (ALI)** CTR ** [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Monday, 3 September 2001 4:55 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: installing NT
well quite simply there a blue screen, physical mem dump etc > fdisked it
all, formated drives > tried to re-install and that's when things started
going wrong !
-----Message d'origine-----
De: Ryan McBride [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ]
Date: lundi 3 septembre 2001 08:52
À: NT System Admin Issues
Objet: RE: installing NT
Its harddrive dependant. Try seeing if you have an Auto Detect Feature for
you HDD's. If your not sure then maybe you need to get someone onsite to
give you a little more help. It sounds like a HDD Config Prob though. Only
other thing is u mentioned, it was running nt4 until it crashed and had to
format it. Can you be a little more specific about what happened.
Thanx
Ryan
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Sent: Monday, 3 September 2001 4:42 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: RE: installing NT
what should they be ideally ?
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De: Ryan McBride [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: lundi 3 septembre 2001 08:43
À: NT System Admin Issues
Objet: RE: installing NT
check BIOS settings for the HDD. Sounds like your settings are wrong
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Sent: Monday, 3 September 2001 4:30 PM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: installing NT
Hi guys,
This maybe little easy for some, but I am trying to install NT server &
wkstation on a Dell PC > after starting the instal I get an error msg that
my cylinder size is over the recommended size (1024) and halts the instal.
Can someone pls advise, I installed NT before ok until the crash happened
and I had to format and start again !!
thanks
Best Regards / Meilleures salutations
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Ali Hadi
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Lucent Technologies
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