\$win_nt$.~ls

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What's the deal with this folder? Why would it ever be needed if you're installing from a boot disk?

The reason why I'm asking is that I was thinking about using a boot disk to format my drive and then copy the i386 folder to C:. After that I was going to just run winnt.exe from c:\i386 and specify my unattend.txt file. I just wasn't sure if I should bother setting the MsdosInititated switch to 1, or if i should leave it at 0. I'm also wondering of I need to format the drive using the /s option so that it copies system files over to make it bootable, or if Windows Setup will copy system files to the drive and turn it into a bootable (in that case i wouldn't need the /s option).

Thanks!