Masters Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 Hello everyone. I would like to start off by saying that I'm a newbie. Please do not insult me if my question seems simple. I have been attempting to do this for the last couple of days and have made considerable progress. The only problem that I'm having is the text based installation. It is not truly unattended. It asks me for partition size and file system. Here is an example of my winnt.sif file. Can any explain why it still ask for partition information if it's supposed to automatically set that up.[Data] AutoPartition = 1 MsDosInitiated = 0 UnattendedInstall = Yes[Unattended] UnattendMode = FullUnattended UnattendSwitch = Yes OemPreinstall = Yes OemSkipEula = Yes extendoempartition = 0 OemPnPDriversPath="%systemdrive%\drivers\0000;%systemdrive%\drivers\1000;%systemdrive%\drivers\1001;%systemdrive%\drivers\1002;%systemdrive%\drivers\1003;%systemdrive%\drivers\1004;%systemdrive%\drivers\2000;%systemdrive%\drivers\2001;%systemdrive%\drivers\4000" FileSystem = * WaitForReboot = No TargetPath = "\Windows" DriverSigningPolicy = Ignore NonDriverSigningPolicy = Ignore Hibernation = No[SystemFileProtection] SFCQuota = 0[GuiUnattended] EncryptedAdminPassword = No AdminPassword = * AutoLogon = Yes TimeZone = 35 OEMSkipRegional = 1 OemSkipWelcome = 1[UserData] ProductKey = "XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX" ComputerName = "MONDESIR" FullName = "Superman" OrgName = "Justice League"[RegionalSettings] Language = 0409[Identification] JoinWorkgroup = "None"[GuiRunOnce]%systemdrive%\install\start.cmd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Radimus Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 FileSystem=*If you prefer to manually choose a partition during text-mode setup with full control on choice of filesystem, add this entry to your winnt.sif file.http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/reference.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cartoonite Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 First off, if you could either truncate your OemPnPDriversPath line or manually wrap it around a few lines, it would make your post much easier to read. As to your issue, it's a simple enough solution. I had the same problem with my test uA CD originally. You need to add[Unattended] Repartition=Yesto your WINNT.SIF file and delete[Unattended] FileSystem = *I think your confusion, and mine, comes from the AutoPartition line in the [Data] section. This line does not, in fact, tell Setup to repartition the drive, but rather to install XP onto the first available partition with enough free space and no currently installed version of Windows. See ref.chm for details.Repartion=Yes will delete all existing partitions on the first drive in the system and then repartition the entire thing into a single NTFS partition. If you are using an unpartitioned drive (which it sounds like you are), Setup will simply create a new partition of the maximum size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fezik Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 Usually its "FileSystem=NTFS". You just forgot to specify what file system you want to format as. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tsunami Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 FileSystem has two values: ConvertNTFS or LeaveAlone. It has nothing to do with weither you want to format the drive, but with if you want convert it to NTFS or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcrowder32 Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 This should work. It is how I do mine. Just be careful...ANY data on ANY partition on that drive will be LOST! Backup anything you need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonic Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 Is there a way to tell Windows to make two partitions instead of just one (as done by "Repartition = Yes" - option) ?And if it is possible can you specify the size of each partition (by percentage preferably) ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Masters Posted December 15, 2004 Author Share Posted December 15, 2004 I would like to thank you all for your support. It was just that simple. I have been testing this installation on VMware before using it on my school computer. Now this is truly an unattended install. One more question. What file system does XP default to. My guess would be NTFS but I cannot be sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prathapml Posted December 15, 2004 Share Posted December 15, 2004 @Masters and JonicHey, you will see as you continue along this path, that having the setup to stop and ask you for partitioning details, really is the best option.Your objective of specifying partitioning (multiple partitions, partition types, sizes) is possible to be done in an automated way, through diskpart scripts in WinPE - but it would just take up way too much time in testing WinPE. It would waste more of your time, than it helps to save.So what's the verdict?What you want, is possible through winpe. But its not worth wasting time on, unless you have to deploy a Windows OS onto hundreds of PCs.XP setup defaults to NTFS formatting (quick). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNARZ Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 AutoPartiton doesn't work... and i don't know why.. can someone help me?i always get the screen to chose the partition (i test under vmware)the interessting part of my winnt.sif[Data]AutoPartition=1 MsDosInitiated=0 UnattendedInstall=yes AutomaticUpdates=yes[unattended] AutoActivate=no UnattendMode=FullUnattended UnattendSwitch=yes OemPreinstall=yes OemSkipEula=yes WaitForReboot=no TargetPath="\Windows" DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore nonDriverSigningPolicy=Ignore Hibernation=yes DUDisable=no ProgramFilesDir= CommonProgramFilesDir= OemPnPDriversPath="driver\nForce_4.27;driver\3com\Disk1"[systemRestore] MaximumDataStorePercentOfDisk=5[setupParams] SkipMissingFiles=No UserExecute="%systemroot%\temp\xplode2.cmd"[setupData] OsLoadOptions="/fastdetect /noguiboot"[GuiUnattended] AutoLogon=Yes AutoLogonCount=1 AdminPassword=* ProfilesDir="%systemdrive%\Accounts" TimeZone=110 OEMSkipRegional=1 OemSkipWelcome=1 EncryptedAdminPassword=no DetachedProgram= Arguments= ServerWelcome=no______ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astalavista Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 read the guidehttp://unattended.msfn.org/xp/reference.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KNARZ Posted January 4, 2005 Share Posted January 4, 2005 Repartitioni always read repairation... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ly9cs Posted January 7, 2005 Share Posted January 7, 2005 Hi ! Since I am new to this I just want to add a my input to this matter.I think I would be great to add Masters problem to the http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/winnt_sif.htmMaybe in red so that readers would be aware that it formats the firstpartion and converts it to NTFS.I have had the same problem as masters and I did not know the answear until I read Masters and your input.Thank You ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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