Table F-2 Setting Up Partitions For A Windows Nt Workstation Installation - Digital Equipment AlphaStation 500 Series User Information

Starting an Operating System Installation
If you are installing the operating system on a disk that has not been partitioned and
formatted, follow the procedure in Table F-2.

Table F-2 Setting Up Partitions for a Windows NT Workstation Installation

Step Action
1 Insert the Microsoft
Windows NT Workstation
CD-ROM into the CD
drive.
2 From the ARC console,
select
Run a Program
3 At the prompt, type
cd:\alpha\arcinst
4 Choose
Configure
Partitions
5 Choose
Create Partition
F-4 AlphaStation 500 Series User Information
Result
CD-ROM drive is ready.
You are prompted for the program name.
ARCINST, the ARC installation program,
provides a means to partition and format the
disk for NT prior to installing Windows NT.
If you encounter a "Pathname is not defined"
error, go to the ARC console Setup menu an
select Set the environment
variables. Select CD-ROM, then enter
the SCSI bus number and ID of the CD-ROM
drive. Next, select Set the default
configuration and follow the steps.
Save the changes and repeat step 4.
Partition menu displays choices that allow
you to create, delete, or make an existing
partition into a system partition.
A list of available target devices displays.
SCSI bus 0, Identifier 0, Disk
0 (scsii(0)disk(0)rdisk(0))
Identifier is the ID of the SCSI device, drive 0
in this case.