>Build the 3 disk NT install disk set (or install from CD if your system supports that) and have NT create the partition - it can be as large as 4GB (actually, the rule is less than 4GB; the exact size depends on how your BIOS renders the drive's logical geometry). Don't create any other partitions - NT's Disk Admin tool can partition and format the remainder after the base install.
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>You're going to have to allocate swap file space on this partition; you only want to have one swap file allocated on a physical drive, no matter how many logical drives you break it into. You can get sizable, measurable benefits from allocating some swap file space on more than one physical drive, especially using SCSI where NT can take advantage of TCQ and disconnect/reconnect permitting several devices on the SCSI bus to have simultaneous operations in progress at once.
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Yeah, I have visited several NT FAQ'S and gleaned much from them, not to mention Windows NT mag. One thing I normally do, is use a seperate FAT partition for the pagefile. It is supposed to be faster because it FAT doesn't have the overhead of NTFS for security, cals, etc. I set the beginning and ending size the same (which is usually twice the size of available ram). This is supposed to keep from corrupting the pagefile.