Unattend Install with Different file locations

[dagon_rm]

Hello.

I like to first say thank you very much for a wonderful forum of technical knowledge on Microsoft OS. This is a jewel of a site.

My question or challenge is. I apologize, upfront, if this is a revisited question and I have failed to find the answer through this forum. I have been playing with Unattend configurations for the last couple of weeks, and can not seem to figure out or find some needed knowledge on creating XP Pro installations with "Document & Settings" and "Program Files" moved to other created partitions. I am very close to figuring out on how to do this, but what is causing me pain is that I like to keep the partitions locked as follows:

Logical C: for Windows system folder.

Logical D: reserved for my CD-ROM drive

Logical E: reserved for my DVD drive

Logical F: reserved for my Zip drive

Logical G: "G:\Apps\Program Files" and "G:\Apps\Program Files\Common Files" , ... etc.

Logical H: "H:\Data\Private\Documents and Settings", ... etc.

I have already edited my winnt.sif file to use the appropriate commands to do this, but I cannot find the command to lock partitions in the above order. What happens in reality is:

Logical C: for windows system folder works successfully

logical D: is not the CD-ROM drive, but instead is the G: logical partition.

Logical E: is not the DVD drive, but instead is the H: logical partition.

Logical F: is not the Zip Drive.

Logical G: is the CD-ROM drive

Logical H: is the DVD drive

Logical I: is the Zip drive

The "strong typing" of directing the unattend to create G as above mention is lost and H: is lost too. As result: The default settings are back..."C:\Program Files", "C:\Program Files\Common Files", and "C:\Document and Settings"

I share my challenge for those that can help me please.

Thank you in advance,

-- B)

[oioldman]

i believe thsi is possible via winnt.sif.

If you download the deployment tools and read ref.chm it will explain who it can be done, but i'm sure it can be.

[dagon_rm]

Thank you for your response oioldman.

I will investigate into the deployment tools. I do have the ref.chm attained already. I am using a winnt.sif file to do my work in. I will give an example copy of my sif file after I, once again, look at these mentioned deployment tools and I will re-read through the ref.chm in reference to the deployment tools. Can you give me more specifics of where these deployment tools are located, as I am new to this web forum site.

Currently, I have only my c:\windows folder on my c drive and everything else is on other partitions...but my goal is to get to the previous mention PC configuration of Partitions "I am so close...I know it" .

-Thanks again, until the next time I post with my example winnt.sif.

[drscouse]

Im looking for something similar too...

I would like to be able to assign drive letters in accordance with drive/partition names during setup... but dont really know where to start...

I have several fixed partitions that I always have to change drive letters for after a clean install, and also to re-assign my 2 dvd drives to Y and Z.

C: BOOT (100mb)

D: SYSTEMDRIVE (20gb)

E: STORE (20gb)

F: ARCHIVE (40GB)

X: CACHEDRIVE (6GB)

Y: DVD1

Z: DVD2

In reality though, they obviously never appear like this after a rebuild due to the partitions location... I would also like to move my pagefile, tem int files, and docs and sett to the X drive during install, after drive letter assignment...

Dunno if this is possible though...

[drscouse]

Just found this... dunno if work with XP, but it seems a good place to start... diskpart.exe

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/techi.../diskpart-o.asp

Answered my own question...

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documen...s/diskpart.mspx

Edited August 17, 2005 by drscouse