Wow, what responces Unfortuantly all tjis talk of scripting is well above my head. Think i will use PMagic to split drive after install and be done with it

...knoppix includes a great partitioning toot, I believe it's PartEd...

@codeblue

Yes, I have used Diskman, but for different purposes, (disk imaging and virtual disk making).

And No, I think it does not support as per now NTFS directly, but that could be the lesser problem as there is the converting tool.

As I see it, Godfatha is right, you need to boot in DOS or FREEDOS, run the batch file(s) needed to fdisk and format

(here is a link to the FREEDOS fdisk, which appears to be scriptable:

http://www.23cc.com/free-fdisk/),

then invoke the windows setup.

Another possibility is Ranish's Partition Manager:

http://www.ranish.com/part/

Again, I use a lot the latter, but I have never tried to script it, most probably it can be done by the method seen above for fdisk or "echoing" characters into it.

jaclaz

Never figured it out how use it, but my guess is that if you REALLY want this, then i will get a PM to tell me that you got it working during unattended install!!

I'm very interrested....

I use the follwing in WinPE to setup a single full size partition & format it, you could easily modify it.

dp.cmd

diskpart /s diskpart.cfg
format c: /fs:NTFS /v:"" /Q /Y

diskpart.cfg

Select Disk 0
Clean
Create Partition primary
Active
Assign Letter=c
exit