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I do not do XP, This is for windows 2003 R2 SP2 Thanks for your help you helped me a lot

I got it working after reading the switch guide for winnt32 i forgot the /temp directory

I used part of another install that I saw on this forum md c:\install md c:\distro xcopy x:\install\*.* c:\install /e /y xcopy x:\distro\*.* c:\distro /e /y cd\xppro\i386 winnt32 /syspart:c: /dudisable /makelocalsource /s:x:\xppro\i386 /unattend:x:\i386\winnt.sif I assumed that the install and distro had his custom files so I removed that from mine, the cd portion I did not understand sicne he did not specify which drive so I add the f: to mine the cd into the i386. the the last part I subsititued my dirve letters with the ones in the file and removed the xppro directory. I am not sure if I am doing this correctly

I got the drive letter change to work just fine thanks. The problem is when I boot up I push F8 and select "Disable automatic restart on system failure" the systems runs diskpart then it goes into the windows setup and then it says it copies over the files then afterwards it still reboots and the system is not installed. here is the line that I have in my formatbat.cmd after it finishes the formatting of the drives f: cd \i386 winnt32 /syspart:c: /dudisable /makelocalsource /s:f:\i386 /unattend:f:\i386\winnt.sif everything is in the right places as for the winnt.sif and the i386 directory any suggestions ?

Here is my current problem. I needed to create 4 partitions on a server ( C: D: E: I:) I have an unattended DVD that I used for other setups in the past that did not require 4 partitions. I tried to use different commands in the winnt.sif file but came to realize/told/read that you can’t set the partition size or create different partitions using that method. So I did the following in order to achieve this 1. Used windows AIK and created a windows PE 3.0 image. 2. Mounted the boot.wim and in the Windows/system32 area I modified the startnet.cmd to have formatbat.cmd. Then I added the following files formatbat.cmd and delpart.txt 3. The formatbat.cmd contains the following diskpart /s delpart.txt echo Y | format c: /v:Syspart /fs:ntfs /q echo Y | format d: /v:Sysdata /fs:ntfs /q echo Y | format e: /v:Sysdata /fs:ntfs /q echo Y | format i: /v:Sysdata /fs:ntfs /q "D:\i386\winnt32.exe /syspart:c: /unattend:D:\i386\winnt.sif /s:D:\i386" Exit 4. Next the delpart.txt has the following Select disk 0 clean create partition primary size 36864 assign letter c Active create partition extended create partition logical size 10240 assign letter d create partition extended create partition logical size 25600 assign letter e create partition logical assign letter=i Exit 5. Then I unmount and commit the image. 6. Then I created an .iso and named it tester.iso 7. Once the .iso is completed I open the iso with magic iso 8. I added the following files/folder in the root of the tester.iso, these are the exact files I used in my unattended DVD install in which i copied from OEM W2K3 R2 SP2 CD's $OEM$ ADMIN CMPNENTS I386 PRINTERS SUPPORT AUTORUN.INF R2AUTO.EXE SETUP.EXE SLIPSTREAM.INF WIN51 WIN51IA WIN51IA.SP2 WIN52IA.R2 9. I mount the .iso using the DRAC. The system loads winpe says it partitions the drives but with errors. 10. First I have the directory for the unattended install in the formatbat.cmd statically set to d:\ since that is what I first noticed when winpe boots up it set it to that. This causes a problem since I am trying to format a d:\ and it errors out. How do I change this to a different letter? 11. Once that completes it appears that windows is going to load but then it stop and reboots without any warnings. I am not sure why this is happening Any help would be great in my problem. 12. I do not have any problems with the below winnt.sif when I boot it from my original dvd so I am not sure if I need to modify anything in here. 13. Any help would be greatly appreciated, if there is a more precise answer in the forums besides what I found please point me there. Once this is done I will gladly post an entire thread on what I have done and my end goal in hopes that others can utilize my help the same way I used it here. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/303906 Here is my winnt.sif file [Data] MsDosInitiated="0" InstallDir="\WINNT" winntupgrade="no" win9xupgrade="no" [Unattended] OverwriteOemFilesOnUpgrade=no NtUpgrade=no Unattendmode = FullUnattended UnattendSwitch = YES OemPreinstall = YES OemSkipEULA = YES TargetPath = WINDOWS Filesystem = ConvertNTFS DUDisable = YES Hibernation = NO WaitForReboot = NO NoWaitAfterTextMode=1 NoWaitAfterGUIMode=1 DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore NonDriverSigningPolicy=Ignore [Display] Xresolution=1024 Yresolution=768 BitsPerPel=16 Vrefresh=75 [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword="XXXXXXXXXXXX" TimeZone=235 OEMSkipRegional=1 OemSkipWelcome=1 [LicenseFilePrintData] AutoMode=PerSeat [Components] Iis_common=Off Iis_ftp=Off Iis_inetmgr=Off Iis_internetdataconnector=Off Iis_nntp=Off Iis_serversideincludes=Off Iis_smtp=Off Iis_webadmin=Off Iis_webdav=Off Iis_www=Off Iis_www_vdir_scripts=Off Iis_asp=Off SCW=Off [UserData] ProductKey="XXXXX-XXXXXX-XXXXXX-XXXX" ComputerName=CHANGEME FullName="xDEV" OrgName="DEV" [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=1 Language= "0409" [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents="Yes" [Identification] JoinWorkgroup="Workgroup"

I have a unattended DVD that works great. the only problem is I need to setup different partitions, from what I read I need to use diskpart to do this before the system starts to load. I haven't messed around with a windowPE before so I am not too sure on what I should do to achieve this. How do I get the WindowsPE to load first then create the partitions then have the unattended portion kick off next? Thanks for any help in advance.

My goal is to have a diaster recovery DVD. the system we deploy on does not have network connectivity and it isolated and very restrictive on what software is installed on it. So my test platform is eactly the same as the servers we use in the field. I captured an image using ghostsrv. Once that was done I used Ghost boot wizard. I selected WinPE 2.0 and added the .gho file to it, now the problem I am having is that it will not detect the CDROM drive. I have tried everything. I have even set the cdrom to what it has been pulling and it still does not work. My question is this. Is there an easier way to capture an image of the box and deploy it using a DVD? if so, could someone point me to the software and some directions please. I have been trying to get this boot DVD to work for 3 days and I am at my wits end with this project.

thanks gotta love the fonz

could you guide me a little on bat files I am not to strong on this . I come from a Unix background @echo off start /wait c:\windows\system32\dcpromo.exe /answer:c:\windows\system32\answer.txt would that work

First off love the program huge help for what I am doing. I have windows server that is unattended as well as the dcpromo to use dcpromo interlaced with the winnt.sif you use the GUiRunOnce command so for the WPI app I browsed to c:\windows\system32\dcpromo.exe for adding a new program then in the command line i added the following /answer:c:\windows\system32\answer.txt but that does not work. Is this not an accepted option for WPI? it works fine from the run window. also when I go back to configure the program the switches are missing like they did not save

ok my titles is misleading. my Dcpromo is not reading the $winnt$.inf file. I got the $OEM$ to copy the file over but it still will nto read the file. Does the file get copied before or after the first logon?

I searched this forum but did not find anything as to what I am trying. My unattended install works great except for one part. Before I get too in depth I will describe my layout I have an ISO that I made and put the unattended file for windows in there. also I created parallel to the i386 folder $OEM$\$$\System32 with the answer file for dcpromo in there ($winnt$.inf) the winnt.inf is the answer file for the DCPROMO to run at first logon well the problem is that the file is not copying over to the local drive from the ISO for dcpromo to read it here is my folder structure on my desktop before I create an ISO OS BOOT and ROOT (ROOT has all the W2K3 files and BOOT has the boot.ima file) $OEM$ DOCS I386 PRINTERS SUPPORT (then the remaining other individual files for windows) the $OEM$ folder has the following sub folder $$\System32 Once everything is setup then I create the ISO and boot from it everything works fine it auto logs on and runs DCPROMO but no error logs and no answer file is created or copied. The reason I know it is not using my answer file is that I used the command to ignore the DNS cancel button when running dcpromo unattended and it still shows up upon the first logon. I also tried my answer file on a new machine manually and the dcpromo accepted it just fine with out errors. So I need help on getting dcpromo to locate the file and also get the answer file from the ISO onto the local disk after installation. So here are the 2 files I am using ;SetupMgrTag [Data] AutoPartition=1 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" UseBIOSToBoot = 0 AutomaticUpdates = yes [Unattended] UnattendMode=DefaultHide OemSkipEula=Yes TargetPath=\WINDOWS ConfirmHardware=No DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore updateInstalledDrivers=No OEMPreinstall=Yes ExtendOemPartition=yes InstallFilesPath="C:\i386" Repartition = yes UnattendSwitch = Yes WaitForReboot = No NoWaitAfterTextMode = 1 NoWaitAfterGUIMode = 1 OemFilesPath=.\$OEM$ [DiskConfig] Disk1="Disk1.config" [Disk1.config] Size1="*" PartitionType1="primary" FileSystem1="NTFS" Quickformat1="yes" [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=Password!2 EncryptedAdminPassword=No OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=235 OemSkipWelcome=1 Autologon = YES [UserData] ProductKey=XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX (blanked this out for the post) FullName="xDEV" OrgName="xDEV" ComputerName=DCFLB [Display] Xresolution=800 YResolution=600 [LicenseFilePrintData] AutoMode=PerServer AutoUsers=5 [Identification] JoinWorkgroup=xDEV [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=No [NetAdapters] Adapter1=params.Adapter1 [params.Adapter1] INFID=* [NetClients] MS_MSClient=params.MS_MSClient [NetServices] MS_SERVER=params.MS_SERVER [NetProtocols] MS_TCPIP=params.MS_TCPIP [params.MS_TCPIP] DNS=No DNSSuffixSearchOrder=bugatti.italia.car,ferrari.italia.car,italia.car,lamborghini.italia.car UseDomainNameDevolution=No EnableLMHosts=Yes AdapterSections=params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1 [params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1] SpecificTo=Adapter1 DHCP=No IPAddress=192.168.6.2 SubnetMask=255.255.255.0 DefaultGateway=192.168.6.1 WINS=No NetBIOSOptions=0 [GuiRunOnce] "DCpromo /answer:C:\WINDOWS\System32\$winnt$.inf" that is the winnt.sif file next is the dcpromo file [DCInstall] CreateOrJoin = Create NewDomain = Forest DNSOnNetwork = No NewDomainDNSName = italia.car DomainNetBiosName = italia SetForestVersion = Yes SafeModeAdminPassword = Password!2 DisableCancelForDnsInstall = Yes RebootOnSuccess = Yes ReplicaOrNewDomain = Domain TreeOrChild = Tree that is the $winnt$.inf file any help would be great. All password and configuration are for a test bed so that is no problem if I post it. I have been working on this for 3 days now. read every KB/$OEM$/MSN websites for this and came across this site in hopes of a resolution.