Nanaki Posted January 17, 2005 Share Posted January 17, 2005 Alright, I'm working on an Unattended Install and coming around quite nicely. The biggest problem I have for now it's not funny unattended, it keeps asking for the partition if Windows is already installed. I don't want this. From what I've read on these forums, it isn't possible on correcting this issue with winnt.sif.My solution is a bit more complicated. Let me draw a lil' timeline to explain it.1. PC boots2. "Press any key to boot from disk..."3. FDisk starts formatting and creating partitions4. normal windows setup starts, sees first empty system partition, installs windows without asking.Is this possible? I would GREATLY aprreciate your help! EDIT= n/m, I've found a bit of a work around Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afterdawn Posted January 17, 2005 Share Posted January 17, 2005 It's not funny unattended? I bet you mean fully cause unattended installations are never funny!If you want to use FDISK prior to setup you have to boot a MSDOS bootdisk. So you should either use the partitioning options in winnt.sif, or create a bootdisk with automated fdisk commands and thén use the Installation cd/dvd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanaki Posted January 17, 2005 Author Share Posted January 17, 2005 lol, whoopsy No, I want it to be fully unattended. See, the least it should do is to format the entire drive to one partition. Automatically. I want to plug in my disk and only press enter one time in the beginning.I found a bit of a workaround. But if anyone knows how to create partitions via percentages (like in FDisk) in the unattended install. Lemme hear it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildstyle Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 Hey, that's exactly what i want aswell!I think setting 'Repartition' to 1 will do the trick, im not sure however.One thing i was wondering about is this:Filesystem: Should it be set to NTFS for automatick quick format of the drive? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cartoonite Posted January 19, 2005 Share Posted January 19, 2005 It's not funny unattended? I bet you mean fully cause unattended installations are never funny!Oh but they are. You should see some of the doozy mistakes I've made in attempting to configure mine. I think setting 'Repartition' to 1 will do the trick, im not sure however.You are exactly right. I had to do this for my vmachine because Setup will not automatically create a partition if there isn't one without this line.One thing i was wondering about is this:Filesystem:Should it be set to NTFS for automatick quick format of the drive?Quick format with the NTFS file system is the default with Windows XP. This line can be safely omitted unless you want to modify that behavior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shigenobuchan Posted December 21, 2005 Share Posted December 21, 2005 Am I correct in stating that the Repartition switch only applies for RIS installs and won't work from DVD based unatteded installations? If so, is there a way to do the samething for media based unattended installations? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
druiddk Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 This will remove all existing partitions and create one big NTFS:[Data]Autopartition = 1[Unattended]Repartition = yesFileSystem = *[Disk.Config] Disk1="Disk1.config"[Disk1.config] Size1="3000" PartitionType1="primary" FileSystem1="ntfs" Quickformat1="yes[Data]"Now some will obviously like i did think you can modify the "Size1="3000"" but I havent gotten it to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorbenDallas Posted December 22, 2005 Share Posted December 22, 2005 What you otherwise can do is to create a BartPE or WINPE and set yoru partitions with Diskpart and then start the installation from there. Works just fine. The only "problem" I have found there is that I have to copy the I386 folder to the local drive before I start the install. But it goes quite quickly so.But it is another solution if you want more than one partition for example... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ah7cald Posted June 12, 2007 Share Posted June 12, 2007 Thanks for the post it was very useful, spent hours searching the web for a solution like this. thanks again :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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