Dos boot first?

[Fion]

Hi, I want to make an unattended cd that first boots into dos, and runs a small program (mainly diskpart in order to choose and build partitions) and then boots the normal windows installation. Does anyone know how this might be done? Or what file I can call from a dos prompt to begin to install the unattended script?

Thanks for your help!

[<SparTacuS>]

I've found the easiest solution for me was to build it multi-boot with a floppy boot image of Partition Magic to configure my drives then reboot back to the menu for an UA install.

[[BM]Crusher]

if you read the xp sp1 deployment tools deploy.chm you will find most of your answers there

in your case, you could use a cd that boots a 9x boot floppy image containing an autoexec.bat which, firstly, runs diskpart, then secondly, runs winnt.exe or winnt32.exe off the cd with the /u:answerfile or /unattend:answerfile settings