
50 Netfinity and Windows 2000 Integration Guide
Windows 2000 supports three file systems:
• FAT - Supports a maximum of 2 GB for the system partition and offers no
security.
• FAT32 - If a system partition of greater than 2 GB is configured and FAT is
selected as the file system, Windows 2000 will state that FAT is limited to 2 GB
and will ask if the system partition can be formatted as FAT32. It offers no
security.
• NTFS - The recommended file system for the system partition. The maximum
size of a system partition is limited only to available hard drive space. It offers
a greater extent of file and directory security and also file encryption.
We recommend NTFS as the file system for the system partition.
Note: Active Directory can only be installed on a partition with an NTFS file
system.
• Paging file
The recommended size of the paging file is 1.5 times the size of physical
memory. For better page file performance it is recommended that multiple
paging files are created on separate partitions. Paging files are still limited to 4
GB size per partition.
The following chapters in this redbook describe two methods of installing
Windows 2000 on Netfinity servers:
• Using ServerGuide
• Installing directly from the Windows 2000 CD-ROM
Figure 29 shows the layout of the book with regard to installing Windows 2000:
Figure 29. Installation options
Pre-installation
(this chapter)
Installing using
ServerGuide
(chapter 4)
Installing directly from
the Windows 2000 CD
(chapter 5)
Post installation
(chapter 6)
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