unattend partitioning

[twindude]

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

[Vann]

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.

[twindude]

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.....

[Vann]

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.

[twindude]

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............

[Vann]

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.

[twindude]

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...

[MCT]

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

regards

[twindude]

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...........?