From: HumZ 
Subject: Re: server 3.12 won't install
Date: 1999/03/19
Message-ID: #1/1
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Organization: TechWerx, Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 08:30:10 EDT
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.novell,comp.sys.novell,fido.novell,il.novell,umn.local-lists.novell

FAT (16) does not recognize paritions 2gig and greater, the DOS partition for NW3.12 shouldn't be anymore than 100 MBs.

Humzah Khaial

>this is odd.....i'm trying to install server 3.12 on a new w/d 4.3 gig h/d.
>and after making a 2 gig fat 16 partition and installing dos 6.22 onto it,
>then trying to install the server software. i'm halted at the point when it
>asks to keep current partition or make new dos partition. it says that i
>need a minimum of 4.5 mb primary dos partition and it shows it as a 3.2 mb
>partition......what gives????????
>some one please help me, i have also tried using partitions or smaller sizes
>and still the same proble, also i didn't make any of the rest of the disk
>into a partition, i left it alone.........
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>Thanks for any help u can provide, Bill Fastenau
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