Re: Flatten Dell box befre installing SBS 2003
- From: "Gregg Hill" <bogus@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 22:56:24 -0700
Stew,
You did not really mean your new server has only 512MB of RAM, did you? You
will see MASSIVE memory paging with that little RAM. I would do 3GB of RAM
and let it breathe.
Gregg Hill
"Stew" <Stew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the tips. If I have an 80 gigabyte hard drive, and I want to
> divide it up into partitions, so that there would be the major operating
> system stuff on C, then other stuff on other partitions, then a big data
> partition, what would you recommend? Currently, for all my OS,
> applications,
> and data, we use about 50% of a 40 GB hard drive on an XP machine we have
> set
> aside as a server. Now we want to move to a real SBS premium Server, with
> email, outside access, SQL, etc. The new server is modest: Dell 3000
> w/[2]
> 80 Gb disk as RAID, 512 mb ram, 1 gigabit nic for local, 1 100 mb nic for
> internet.
>
> It sounds from your post that you would put Exchange on a different
> partition. What about SQL, I have a big application of user data that
> uses
> SQL - put that somewhere else too then? What about everything else, I
> forget
> what menu choices there were but i seem to recall they gave options for
> just
> about everything.
>
> What would go on C, what would go on D, what would go on E, etc? I like
> the
> idea of separating data from the OS. But I don't want to be boxed in
> later
> either. What would a C drive size be that would be comfortable for a good
> bit of future? I saw where the minimum recommended was 5 gb I think, for
> SBS
> premium, but that seems small to me.
>
> I saw that menu where there were options to choose where to place stuff,
> but
> at that time I had not placed any additional partitions on the drive. So
> now, since I haven't gotten much farther, I'm just going to start over.
>
> Thanks!!
>
> Stew
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> "Frank McCallister SBS MVP" wrote:
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>> I simply insert the Dell Boot disk (Server Assistant) and boot. This will
>> create new partitions for you. This keeps you from having to prepare
>> driver
>> disk for F6 on SBS CD boot. One tip is to stop the install after CD1 on
>> reboot and format your remaining partitions and rename CD from D so that
>> you
>> can install Exchange data and User shares where you wish and not have to
>> move them later
>>
>> --
>> Frank McCallister SBS MVP
>> COMPUMAC
>> "Gregg Hill" <bogus@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:%23z%23R4jtpFHA.3544@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > Hello!
>> >
>> > It has been recommended by several people to "flatten the box" before
>> > installing SBS on a Dell server. Two questions I have are 1) Do you
>> > mean
>> > to just format and install, or 2) delete ALL partitions, including the
>> > Dell utility partition, then format, and install?
>> >
>> > Thank you!
>> >
>> > Gregg Hill
>> >
>> >
>> >
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