Compaq NT 4.0 setup quesion

[James529]

Lenghy question:

I have a Compaq refurbished 5500r with 1280 mb memory that I picked up for $500.

I want to set up with NT 4.0 and use this server in my business, networking it to my desktop pc (running XP) and laptop (win98) for starters (I bought a D-Link 10/100 5 port switch and some cat 5 cables).

I think I want to set this server up as a PDC with DHCP, does this sound appropriate?).

I know nothing about setting up a server.

The server has two 9.1gb seagate ultra2 SCSI 10k hot swap disk drives in slots 0 and 1.

I used smartstart ver. 4.7 assisted setup. It ran fine (excepting for the NIC card which has an error in the event log, more on this later).

Using disk manager, looking at drive 0, I notice I have:

Two drives with 8676 mb

Drive 0 :

EISA Utilities 39 mb

Drive C: (partition?) having a capacity of 1545mb (shows as having practically no free space left).

The rest of the drive 0 shows "free space" of 7091mb. Seems to me there was a screen that asked me how much space to allocate..... (I left this allocation at the setting it was defaulted to)

The drive in slot 1 appears as 8676 mb "free space".

The C: partition is practically full, doesn't seem to be an ideal situation so I'd like a recommendation as to how I should have done during Smart Start to set this up (I'll have to run smartstart again using the "erase" option first yes??). During smart start, should I set the space at 8636mb? 1545 + 7091 ?

 

[Shurik]

It depends of some things :
1. you can use erase utility , but then ofcourse you have to start from the beginning .
2. you have 2 9 GB h-disks , it sounds like you are mirroring them ( cause you have 9 GB free space )
3. Do you need to mirror them ? how much that info is important for you ? how much space you need . My advice , if 9 GB is enough for you , then mirror .
4. One of the stages at the smartstart is the question about the physical drives , that where you are saying if to mirror or not .
5. The question about the size of C : Partition is regular at the Setup phase of NT4.
6. About the nic , go the company site and get appropriate
driver for that ... Had some problems with that also ...
7. About the PDC + DHCP , it depends on how many comps do you have , what are the other purposes of that server ..
if the num of comps is small - use it . Alex,
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