unattend partitioning

#1 twindude

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Posted 30 July 2004 - 08:01 AM

Does anyone know how or has created an unattended partitions?

I have read some things on Diskpart/aefdisk..

Is it possible to partitions the HDD to 3 partitions on the fly?
1-c-8GB logical
1-d-10GB logical
1-e-10GB logical

#2 Vann

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Posted 30 July 2004 - 08:34 AM

The unattended process cannot do this, you'll have to use something like WinPE or BartPE to partition and format the drive, and then run the Windows Setup utility. All that can be automated completely.

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Posted 30 July 2004 - 08:43 AM

well then............

I'm working on have GDisk do it right now.........may have to add a few things but I have a friend that says gdisk will do it.........

i'll have to let you know.....

#4 Vann

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Posted 30 July 2004 - 08:49 AM

That's a lot of periods you have there. Anyways, yes, I've been told that Norton's gdisk is able to do it also.

#5 twindude

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Posted 30 July 2004 - 08:54 AM

OK

Gdisk will allow you to carve up the disk.......

but after doing some thinking and testing the smartest way I think to do this is

1- use gdisk to create first logical partition and leave the rest un-partition
2- load windows in the first partition
3- then use the disk mgr from within windows to do the partitioning of other drives
this way you don't have to resize and only create the other ones..

an Unattned wants all of the physical space it sees............

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Posted 30 July 2004 - 10:21 AM

No, you can tell the unattended install to just use the first partition it sees, and to not touch it in any way. The options are Repartition="No" and FileSystem=* I think.

#7 twindude

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Posted 30 July 2004 - 10:38 AM

do i need to partition before windows starts.....?
if so how.... winnt.sif with diskpart?
bart PE?

not sure i'm lost on this partitioning things...

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Posted 30 July 2004 - 10:41 AM

look in ref.chm file in the windows deployment pack.. it will give u info on partitioning & the commands/examples that go with it in winnt.sif

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#9 twindude

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Posted 30 July 2004 - 11:33 AM

I don't understand the sysprep......

can i just add the disk [diskconfig] to my winnt.sif file? if so, where top/bottom?
[DiskConfig]
Disk1 = First.Config

[First.Config]
WipeDisk = Yes
Size1 = 8000
FileSystem1 = NTFS
SetActive1 = Yes
PartitionType3 = Logical
Size2 = 10000
FileSystem2 = NTFS
PartitionType3 = Logical
Size3 = 10000
FileSystem3 = NTFS
PartitionType3 = Logical

not sure who to do the sysprep stuff, it looks to be the same as winnt.sif but not sure where to place 'what' file where...........?

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