Specifying and/or changing partition size

[^eMpTy^]

I've been googling for a bit and can't find a solid way to do this.

I have 65 machines to image in the next couple of days using RIS. I have all the super cool unattended stuff going on, but I can't seem to figure out a way to keep windows from using the entire partition. Since I will be installing linux on a separate partition at some point in the future I'd like to leave about 30 gigs left on the drives.

Is there any way I can specify the size to make the primary partition without forcing the unattended install to stop and prompt me for the size?

[kazuza]

Yes.

All you have to do is to use diskpart to do the job, in the winnt.sif/unattend.txt, section [Disk.Config]

Please read the setupmgr help file included in XP SP2 deploy tools

[oioldman]

is that really true kazuza as most people have realised they need to use BartPE or WinPE to accomplish this behaviour.

[edit]

and have just looked through both re.chm and deploy.chm and foud no ref to [disk.config]. Can you add some more light to this.

[/edit]

Edited August 20, 2005 by oioldman

[kazuza]

In deploy.chm:

Helpful command line tools > Diskpart commands (and diskpart scripting)

In ref.chm , searching by keyword "disk.config" , I've came across this sample script:

Example 1

The following example configures two physical hard disks, each 32 GB. The operating system is Windows XP Home Edition or another 32-bit edition of Windows.

[DiskConfig]

Disk1 = First.Config

Disk2 = Data.Config

[First.Config]

Size1 = 30000

FileSystem1 = FAT32

SetActive1 = Yes

PartitionType1 = Primary

Size2 = *

PartitionType2 = Extended

Size3 = *

PartitionType3 = Logical

[Data.Config]

Size1 = *

FileSystem1 = NTFS

Have fun

[orion2]

Thanks, has anyone tried this out or found a better way of partitioning and formatting the drive via the wnnt.sif

Thanks

[Takeshi]

I still cannot find disk.config in English SP2 ver of ref.chm.

[kazuza]

Search better

Do as I explained above. That quote was extracted from the English SP2 ref.chm file ...

[Agent007]

Hello kazuza,

I have Windows XP with SP2 slipstreamed, and Disk.Config is not found in ref.chm or deploy.chm.

I've put your example in winnt.sif and test it on a test machine, it doesn't work, it autopartition the whole harddisk into one partition only.

Can you please give us a complete winnt.sif to test it. Thank you.