The school recently purchased a Shuguang I200 series server and decided to install the Windows 2000 Server system to provide web services. Set the server CMOS to boot from the disc, put in a boot disk, and type the Fdisk command to start partitioning. It is planned to use 10GB as the main DOS partition and the remaining part is used as the extension partition. Since the hard disk capacity is 200GB, the partition is very slow. After the main DOS partition is created, I checked the partition information and found that it was abnormal. The problem remains after deleting the partition and re-dividing it. It seems that the partition tool must be replaced.
[Revelation] For large hard disks above 60GB, when partitioning for the first time, it is best to use large hard disk partition tools such as Gdisk, or use Windows 2000 installation disks that can be directly booted for division.
The server comes with two Turbolinux system installation disks. I would rather try installing a Linux system than considering it! The system installation disk comes with a CD "Turbolinux 8 for AMD64 Server Quick Installation Guide". The author read it roughly and the installation is divided into 23 steps. Put the first installation disk into the optical drive, and the installation prompt enters the graphical interface to install, and select the installation language, installation method, keyboard configuration, mouse configuration, etc. in turn. It was very smooth at the beginning, but when it came to the "disk partitioning", the prompt "There is not enough disk space for partitioning, and the disk needs to be manually partitioned and installed. Please select the tool for partitioning the system - Tfdisk (graphical and easy-to-use partitioning tool) and Loopback (establishing an environment in an existing MS-DOS partition).
The "Installation Guide" prompts: Installing Linux must have a partition suitable for Linux; if you are a new system or you are not familiar with partitions (referring to partitions of Linux systems), please use "automatic disk partitioning". However, the "automatic disk partition" item that appears on the interface is unavailable. According to the prompt, there should be no partition used by Linux on the disk, so the "automatic disk partition" item cannot be used. Try the Tfdisk partition tool. After more than 20 minutes of attempt, the partition was finally successfully completed.
The author restarted the computer and installed the Linux system again. When I reached the "Disk Partition" step, I found that "Automatic Disk Partition" was available. Since I am not familiar with Linux partitions, I have to select the "Automatic Disk Partition" item until the installation is completed smoothly and there is no installation error prompt just now.
Remove the installation disk, press Enter and restart the system. The Linux system starts very slowly. After loading the system information, enter the user name and password set during installation in turn, but you still cannot enter the system. According to the prompt information on the screen, enter "StartX" at the "[root@localhost root]#" prompt that appears, and after entering, I finally saw the true face of the Linux system. Because I want to install web services, the author will definitely not be able to master the use of the Linux system in a short period of time, so I decided to install the Windows 2000 Server system.
I found a Windows 2000 Server system disk that can be directly booted. During installation, I deleted the original Liunx partition and recreated a 10GB NTFS partition as the system partition. After installation, we used the "disk management" function that comes with the system, and there were dozens of GB of space left without creating any partitions. We prepared to install the Linux system again. Put it in the system installation disk and start the installation, and it is time to "disk partition" again. Since the original Liunx partition was deleted, the "automatic disk partition" item is still unavailable.
This time, the author checked the basic knowledge about Linux partitions to make it clear. Select the radio box of the TFDISK partition, click [Next] to start adding partitions; first divide 64MB of space as various boot file areas, the installation point is "/boot", and the partition type is "Linux ext2 (default Linux partition type)"; then divide 7000MB of space as the system installation area, the installation point is "/", and the partition type is "Linux ext2"; then divide 9000M of space as the user directory and data area, the installation point is "/home", and the partition type is "Linux ext2", so that the system and user data can be separated. After the division is completed, continue to install and everything goes well.
[Revelation] For network administrators, when they are exposed to some new technologies, they can first look at the relevant information, which will achieve twice the result with half the effort, so as not to waste too much time.