vaneeshs Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 Does anyone have any information on what u can delete from the i386 folder safely on a Windows XP install. Im currently having probs with the initial copying stage from the distribution point, the install either stops or a message comes up saying there XP need at least 1023MB free space. It was alright but with all the updates the amount being copied over has increased. Obviously too much.I have a boot disk, made from another site. It uses gdisk to format and partition the disk to 2047MB and then reboots and connects to the distribution share, where it starts its copying stage.I've tried increasing the size of the created partition but i get an error:Cannot find a place for the swap file.The code for the disk is:::Use Norton Gdisk.exe (look for the latest version to use).::The first line deletes all partitions on the drive.::The second line creates a DOS (FAT16) Primary partition of 2048MB::and does a quick format.::The /y supresses confirmation::The /for means format::The /q means quick format::The /sz: is size in MB::The /-32 means FAT16 partition::The /all means all partitions on the hard drive::Note: Gdisk will not delete dynamic disks .\gdisk 1 /y /del /all .\gdisk 1 /y /cre /pri /-32 /sz:2047 /for /qAny help would be appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCT Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 look at the nLite forum under User Created Projects, thats what it doesits a windows XP/2003 reduction utility Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Frink Posted June 7, 2004 Share Posted June 7, 2004 I had a similar problem, although for me it was with "aefdisk" and "Format". The problem was because this was via an MS-DOS bootdisk, and it could only create a FAT16 partition (which by its nature can't be larger than 2GB). For me, the solution was doing my business with a Windows 98 bootdisk, which can create and format a FAT32 partition larger than 2GB.The only catch I had was that this was a network bootdisk, and I now didn't have enough room on the floppy disk for the networking components! That led to creating and extracing a .cab file, and a few other headaches... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaneeshs Posted June 8, 2004 Author Share Posted June 8, 2004 where exactly is this?look at the nLite forum under User Created Projects, thats what it doesits a windows XP/2003 reduction utilitythanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucketbuster Posted June 8, 2004 Share Posted June 8, 2004 @vaneeshshttp://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=89andhttp://nuhi.msfnhosting.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vaneeshs Posted June 9, 2004 Author Share Posted June 9, 2004 Cheers for that, i managed to find it. What a handy tool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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