snorkel89

I do have PqDisk.exe from Power Quest Toolkit that works. On a a IDE + win2k I can script it to format and then start the win2k install, with no reboot. On a SATA drive it seems i have to reboot, which is better than making another BIOS setting change.

Unfortunatly I do not have Ghost v8.0 to get gdisk. I will try to find it though. M

You can. I first tried doing during the unattended install, could not get it to work since the profile was nor total created yet. was going to edit the HIVEDEF.INF, but was WWAAAYYY to much work. So, I do copy it after a autologon. A installer account logs in and is only used for installing. just make sure you check the attrib of the ntuser.dat (c:\documents and settings\default user\ntuser.dat). I do not remember at this time is XP was hidden or if it was win2k. either way just check it. It will fail if it is hidden. This has worked great for us. attrib -h "c:\documents and settings\default user\ntuser.dat" copy /y %systemdrive%\misc\ntuser.dat "c:\documents and settings\default user\ntuser.dat" M

I was using gdisk to wipe the partion create a new DOS with a DOS Netware IP boot cd. we now have some Dell gx 280s that have SATA drives. I can not fdisk, use gdisk (just hangs) WITH OUT going into the BIOS and changing a SATA drive option to "combination" mode which says it make is compatible with older OS's (like DOS). just wonder if someone knows a work around for the DOS SATA, gdisk problem. I am going to try PXE soon. M

Cool, seems to work on ME (yuck, I know) I will try it on Win2k and XP soon. Now what about the Shockwave installe. I do not want the Yahoo bar that installs with the stand alone version. That was the main reason I was going to use the MSIs. I could install them with the GUIrunonce but would not want to as a last resort. S

Trying to incorporate Shockwave and Flash players into my unattended win2k. I have signed up and downloaded the Corp versions (sw_pub.msi and Install Flash Player 7.msi). I can not get them to run from the cmdlines.txt successfully. I have other MSI apps that fun fine. I am using: "msiexec.exe /i c:\SW\sw_pub.msi" "msiexec.exe /i c:\flash\Install Flash Player 7.msi" I have even tried to run the above from a .bat file in the cmdlines.txt. They run fine from windows with no / msi switches. Anyone else able to do this?? S