Preparing to Install Your Operating System
3-6 AlphaServer 1000A Rackmount Owner’s Guide
7. Select "Create Partition" and press the Enter key. When the list of available disks
displays, select the disk to be prepared and press the Enter key. You are prompted for
the size of the partition.
8. Type 6 after the "Enter size" prompt, then press the Enter key. A 6-megabyte
partition is created. This partition will be a file allocation table (FAT) system
partition.
9. Press the Enter key to format the partition. When the formatting is complete, press
the Enter key again.
10. Select "Create Partition" and press the Enter key. When the list of available disks
displays, select the first disk again and press the Enter key. You are prompted for the
size of the partition.
11. Type the larger of the two values at the "Enter size" prompt, then press the Enter key.
The partition is created.
12. Press the Enter key to format the partition. When the formatting is complete, press
the Enter key again.
13. Select "Make Existing Partition into a System Partition" and press the Enter key.
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A message may display asking whether to overwrite an already defined system
partition. Type
y
.
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If the system displays the message, "Boot selections already exist", exit the
ARCINST program, go to the Setup menu, choose "Manage boot selections," and
delete all existing boot selections. Then return to the Boot menu to restart the
ARCINST program and return to step 13 in these instructions.
14.
When the system displays a list of available disks, select the same disk you just
formatted and then press the Enter key. The list of available partitions displays.
15.
Select "Partition 1" and press the Enter key. Your system is now prepared for
installation of Microsoft Windows NT.
16.
Select Exit and press the Enter key. Select Exit again and press the Enter key.
Installing Microsoft Windows NT
From the ARC Boot menu, select the Supplementary menu and press the Enter key. When
the Supplementary menu displays, select "Install Windows NT from CD-ROM" and press
the Enter key. At this point, installation of Windows NT begins. For further installation
information, refer to your Windows NT documentation.
