nLite Keep Asking for Disk Partition for Win2k3 ISO Image

[ckm]

I am a new user for the nLite, and trying to setup windows 2003x64 unattended ISO. I choose unattended installation, but the install program just keep asking for partitioning the disk. I attached my last session.ini, last session_u.ini, and winnt.sif here. Can someone in the forum help me on this?

Thanks

ckm

LAST SESSION_U.INI

LAST SESSION.INI

winnt.sif

[GrofLuigi]

Hi and welcome,

First, you'd better remove your cd key from LAST SESSION_U.INI and winnt.sif.

Second, there's a lot of info on this forum if you used search.

I don't use Unattended myself so I can't really tell.

GL

[Sp0iLedBrAt]

There's something here about the use of winnt.sif http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314459 , but you could have found this on google yourself

Welcome to MSFN and please do not double-post http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/147215-nlite-keep-asking-for-disk-partition-for-win2k3-iso-image/page__pid__943754#entry943754 This is the nLite forum, so you are in the right place

[cluberti]

Deleted other post, moved to nLite section.

[Ponch]

To complete the already given info, nLite does not feature/support (and never will) auto-partitionning nor auto-formatting.

[achmed]

To complete the already given info, nLite does not feature/support (and never will) auto-partitionning nor auto-formatting.

presumably because it's dangerous?

here's how anyway:

assuming you configured it as closely as you could - i.e. with unattended settings - stop right before the last step, where it packs the ISO for you. browse to the winnt.sif file in i386, and change these two lines:

; Generated by nLite 1.4.9.1

[Data]
AutomaticUpdates="No"
;Autopartition=0      ;  ########## replace this  ##############
Autopartition=1     ;  ########## by this  ##############
MsDosInitiated=0
UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[Unattended]
UnattendMode=FullUnattended
UnattendSwitch="Yes"
OemPreinstall="Yes"
OemSkipEula="Yes"
ComputerType="ACPI Multiprocessor PC", Retail
FileSystem=*
WaitForReboot="No"
NoWaitAfterTextMode=1
NoWaitAfterGUIMode=1
DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
NonDriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
Repartition=Yes          ;  ########## add this  ##############

then make / burn the iso.

Edited November 15, 2010 by achmed

[Ponch]

presumably because it's dangerous?

Yes. It scares me. That is also the view of the author who probably stated his tool was used "not only" by advanced users.

Also

-the program's developpement is stopped, finished, that's why I wrote "never will".

-that question has been asked and answered many times on the forum

-I can see how that bit would help in a commercial environnement, but nLite's EULA says it is for personal use only.