RE: OT: Windows 2000 Patch problem

[Dov Isaacs <isaacs@xxxxxxxxx>]

My personal recommendation is that after installation of Windows 2000 or XP
(any version) PLUS any applications PLUS accounting for a paging file ("pagefile.sys")
equaling at least 1.5 x the amount of physical memory on your system (but no
less than 1.5 gigabytes), you have at least 2 gigabytes of available disk storage!

        - Dov


At 8/29/2002 02:51 PM, Dick Gaskill wrote:
>Hi Dov,
>
>What would you recommended as the minimum space on a Win2K system drive -after- the Win2K installation.
>BTW, are you in the UK today? (line 7 of your message :-)
>
>Cheers,
>
>Dick
>
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>From:   Dov Isaacs[SMTP:isaacs@adobe.com]
>Reply To:       Dov Isaacs
>Sent:   Thursday, August 29, 2002 2:18 PM
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>Cc:     framers@frameusers.com; framers@omsys.com
>Subject:        Re: OT: Windows 2000 Patch problem
>
>Don,
>
>Thanks for the head's up on that one. The good news is that it doesn't
>appear to be a global problem. I have both my temp and spool directories
>on a separate partition (G:) and had no problems on one of the systems
>that I upgraded. The other system is similarly configured but has problems
>very much unlike the "ntoskrnl.exe" missing problem you encountered.
>I think the real issue is that no matter where you put temp or spool
>directories, all flavours of Windows 2000 and XP expect that the boot
>partition will have plenty of expansion space for all sorts of purposes,
>including storage of "uninstall" files, backups to service packs, profiles,
>etc.
>
>        - Dov
>
>
>At 8/29/2002 01:32 PM, Don.Laux@SolimarSystems.com wrote:
>>Ann, Dov, et al,
>>
>>This may have nothing to do with Ann's problem, but it may serve as an
>>important caveat for those who install Win2K SP3 nonetheless.
>>
>>If you have changed your temp directories from C:\ to another partition on
>>your hard drive, Win2K SP3 may give you problems.
>>
>>Our print server product can create large temp files, and the C:\
>>partition can be relatively small, causing disk space errors. So one of
>>the tech support people here had moved their temp directories to another
>>partition a while back, then later applied SP3, and received an
>>"ntoskrnl.exe missing or corrupted" error message upon rebooting. The
>>operating system needed to be reinstalled. It turns out that the fact that
>>the temp directories were not on C:\ when the service pack was applied
>>caused the error.
>>
>>Watch out for the same problem if you apply the service pack to a dual
>>boot system with Win2K on the D:\ partition).
>>
>>I hope this info saves someone a bunch of pain...
>>
>>Regards,
>>-Don
>
>
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