From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Sat Aug 24 2002 - 13:14:10 EDT
HUH..??
start over..
please..? :-)
<------------------------------->
Cordially, :-)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve C." <stevec50_at_yahoo.com>
To: "Michael Geary" <Mike_at_Geary.com>
Cc: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 12:53 PM
Subject: RE: IBM Technical Support Awful?
> If I boot from the W2K CD it still requires a Fat32
> partition or it won't install. Says there is no room
> on the HD! I tried it about 9 times in a row once
> when I was installing MS upgrades that made the system
> crash and I was trying to find out which one it was.
> If I had partitioned it to NTFS it was a no-go until I
> ran FDISK and put it back to Fat32. Maybe that
> wouldn't have been a problem with more than one
> partition on the HD, I don't know.
> --- Michael Geary <Mike_at_Geary.com> wrote:
> > > You can't start installing XP or W2K either on an
> > NTFS
> > > partition. That's not a problem, it's a "feature"
> > of
> > > Windows! It will say there is no space on the hard
> > > disk. You have to start with a FAT32 partition
> > first
> > > by using FDISK and then running the installation.
> > Part
> > > way into the installation it will ask you if you
> > want
> > > to reformat the partition or leave as is.
> >
> > That's true only if you're installing by booting DOS
> > and running the WINNT
> > command, and there is no other local FAT/FAT32
> > partition with free space.
> >
> > When you install via the WINNT command, Setup takes
> > a conservative approach
> > and assumes that you might be installing over a
> > network, or otherwise not
> > have access to the setup files after the first
> > reboot. So it copies all the
> > setup files onto a local partition first. Note that
> > this does not have to be
> > the same partition you're installing onto--it will
> > search for free space on
> > any local partition. If you do have some other
> > partition with free space,
> > then you can install directly onto an NTFS partition
> > or unpartitioned space.
> >
> > A bootable CD is a whole different matter. If you
> > install NT/2000/XP from a
> > bootable CD, it never requires any pre-existing
> > partition.
> >
> > When you install from CD, Setup knows (or hopes!)
> > that its own CD-ROM
> > drivers will be able to access the CD after the
> > first reboot, so it skips
> > that file copying step, and simply copies files
> > directly from the CD later
> > as it needs them. So when you boot from CD, you can
> > install onto a
> > completely unpartitioned hard drive, or an NTFS
> > partition, or whatever you
> > like.
> >
> > -Mike
> >
>
>
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