^eMpTy^ Posted August 17, 2005 Share Posted August 17, 2005 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazuza Posted August 20, 2005 Share Posted August 20, 2005 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oioldman Posted August 20, 2005 Share Posted August 20, 2005 (edited) 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazuza Posted August 25, 2005 Share Posted August 25, 2005 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 1The 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.ConfigDisk2 = Data.Config[First.Config]Size1 = 30000FileSystem1 = FAT32SetActive1 = YesPartitionType1 = PrimarySize2 = *PartitionType2 = ExtendedSize3 = *PartitionType3 = Logical[Data.Config]Size1 = *FileSystem1 = NTFS Have fun Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orion2 Posted September 3, 2005 Share Posted September 3, 2005 Thanks, has anyone tried this out or found a better way of partitioning and formatting the drive via the wnnt.sifThanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takeshi Posted September 17, 2005 Share Posted September 17, 2005 I still cannot find disk.config in English SP2 ver of ref.chm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazuza Posted September 17, 2005 Share Posted September 17, 2005 Search betterDo as I explained above. That quote was extracted from the English SP2 ref.chm file ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent007 Posted September 17, 2005 Share Posted September 17, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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