HELP

[sam_wilson]

Help

i have attemped to make an unattended installation, but failed. once i have made the winnt.sif file where do i put it? and where doi put the .bat file that it creates?

[jacksont123]

1. put the winnt.sif in the i386 directory

2. read the unattended guide @ http://unattended.msfn.org

[sam_wilson]

thanks for your help but i already have, and it dosnt make a different, dose the unattended installation go through the partitioning of the disk and reformating the disk?

i've been on a website that tells me to put the winnt.sif on a floppy will that work?

[Yzöwl]

No you haven't!

You need to start at the beginning in 'beginners mode' and then move to the more advanced stuff when you know what you want and understand more.

As a jump start Go Here!

[Alanoll]

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[tguy]

I think this might be what you are looking for:

Microsoft has included three settings that can be modified in the WINNT.SIF file. These options are NOT generated by the Setupmgr.exe utility so they will have to be added manually. The settings, located in the [unattended] section of the WINNT.SIF file are:

A) ExtendOemPartition=0 or 1 (0 means do not extend partition to full size of hard disk, 1 means utilize full size of hard disk.) NOTE: Only NTFS partitions can be extended. You can automatically format the partition NTFS if need be by utilizing the FileSystem=ConvertNTFS parameter also inserted into the [unattended] section.

B) Repartition=Yes or No (YES means first drive is deleted and reformatted NTFS, NO means it is left as-is.) NOTE: This option can only be used when booting server from a Windows Server 2003 CD, and it will not affect HP/COMPAQ system partitions.

C) AutoPartition=0 or 1 (0 means do not automatically partition drive, 1 means automatically partition drive.

D) Here is an example of items A,B & C:

[Data]

AutoPartition= 0 or 1

[unattended]

Repartition=Yes or No

ExtendOemPartition=0 or 1

Good luck.

[Alanoll]

thanks tht is wot i wanted to no, i have got it to work now, i am struggling to make my user account now. how do i set the unattend file to do that, i have read through the steps but they just confuse me. i want to just have a .bat file on the floppy disk,

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