Network Installation of Windows 2000 Pro

Dups. · Post by **Dups.** » April 1, 2004, 1:39 pm

I was reading the setup for this.

So it says to make a distribution folder on a server. That's fine. But then it says...

Create a FAT partition on the target computer. The target computer requires a formatted partition on which to copy the installation files. Create a 650-MB (2-GB or larger recommended) partition and format it with the FAT file system.

Why does it have to be a FAT partition? I guess the installation files are not able to be copied onto an NTFS partition?

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » April 1, 2004, 2:37 pm

I'm guessing it could.. But non-NT clients probably wouldn't be able to access it for their installs.

(But that's just a guess! I forgot most of what I knew about NT Admin)

Voronwë · Post by **Voronwë** » April 1, 2004, 2:40 pm

on a W2k install can't you convert from FAT to NTFS down the line anyway, whithout fucking up the data?

Dups. · Post by **Dups.** » April 1, 2004, 4:30 pm

Well, Here is what a friend of mine answered me.

I think it is because the boot client is a dos client, which would not be
able to read the NTFS partition and Win2k then converts the partition
during the unattended install if specified to do so.

This is what I figured was the reasoning for it.

Thanks for the input.

Aslanna · Post by **Aslanna** » April 1, 2004, 6:24 pm

Dups. wrote:Well, Here is what a friend of mine answered me.

I think it is because the boot client is a dos client, which would not be
able to read the NTFS partition and Win2k then converts the partition
during the unattended install if specified to do so.
This is what I figured was the reasoning for it.

Thanks for the input.

That's what I said!

Dups. · Post by **Dups.** » April 1, 2004, 8:33 pm

Yes, you wrote that you were guessing.

Thought I would put some confirmation to what you said by showing that someone else answered almost the same answer as you did