Re: Renaming domain w/o reinstalling

The Dell PowerEdge I ordered is a dual P4 Xeon w/ 2 gb ram and a 160 GB SATA
drive (basic specs for a small business where I live) w/o a floppy drive.
Will this cause me issues later on by not having it?

-- Michael


"Frank McCallister SBS MVP" <anonymous> wrote in message
news:u9aXU1peFHA.892@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi
>
> I have to disagree with Marina here. Boot with the Dell Server Install
Disk
> and Partition the Disk with it so that the Dell Drivers are installed. I
> would choose about 15 GB for C and then at the completion of CD1 stop the
> install long enough to partition the remainder of your Drives so that you
> can choose where to Install your User Shares and Data. If you boot from
the
> SBS Cd you will have to prepare a Driver floppy to use with F6 on bootup.
>
> This is my opinion and others may disagree.
>
> --
> Frank McCallister SBS MVP
> COMPUMAC
> "MWE Computers" <mwecomputers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:%239E7eapeFHA.2128@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Here's the problem, I got a Dell PowerEdge SC1420 preinstalled w/ SBS
2003
> > directly from Dell. Dell also included the disk for the SBS and a CD for
> > the
> > PowerEdge SC server installation. I am totally new to the SBS
environment,
> > so other than having to contact Dell (which is always dreadful), whats
the
> > best way of going about for the reinstall?
> >
> > -- M
> >
> >
> > "MWE Computers" <mwecomputers@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:OpoiHcmeFHA.220@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Upon initial setup it asked for a domain name to setup under Windows
SBS
> >> 2003. After talking with the client after the fact, they want to rename
> > it.
> >> How do I go about thing this w/o having to do a full reinstall?
> >>
> >> No patches or anything else has been installed yet.
> >>
> >> -- Michael
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>


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