Install W2K initial drive letter other than C

[bottomburp]

Hello there,

I do a lot of unattended installs for Terminal Services and Citrix.

With our CItrix Servers we remap drive letters using the drive remap utility.

It got me wondering whether i could actually do an unattended installation with the systemdrive as ( for example ) M without having to remap drive letters post installation ?

Is it possible to do this ?

Thanks for your time.

[os2fan2]

Systemdrive is where ntldr and ntdetect.com live. You want to set the tempdrive.

It is quite easy to do this, but you do it through winnt32.exe switches, rather than through the unattend.txt

To install windows 2k/xp onto the M drive, use

winnt32 /tempdrive=M ....

You can do unattend with /systemdrive=M as well, but windows will not boot such a drive. What happens instead, is that you can remove the hard disk and use it elsewhere, and when it boots, it will complete the install.

Note however that /systemdrive has to point to a primary partition, which should be made active before the install completes. /tempdrive can point to an extended partition on a second drive.

Edited July 24, 2005 by os2fan2

[bottomburp]

Many thanks for the reply.

Ill stick with the Drive Remapping util i think.