Re: FN-FORUM: Technical Hardware Question

date posted 20th August 2004 20:50

You can do a 4gb boot partition, I know that as I've got 3! I would, as
there are so many patches and so on. You can probably do just under 8 (BIOS
permitting) - can't remember as all my disks from that era were smaller
than that.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Pete Croft" [EMAIL REMOVED]
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Sent: Friday, August 20, 2004 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: Technical Hardware Question


>
> Tony Crockford wrote:
>
> > is it 4gb plus one big data partition?
>
> 2GB boot partition IIRC. What you do after that is up to you.
>
> It should install fine - I've got NT4S running on a RAID5 made out of
> 40GB drives (so it sees it as an 80GB volume, with three partitions,
> as it happens).
>
> > or is there some tricks I'm missing.
>
> You might need to tweak the BIOS too, if the machine BIOS can't handle
> large disks.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Pete
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