furious_george Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 Greetings,I'm new to the unattended install process and any help is appreciated. I have created an unattended file, but when installing, I still get prompt for setting partitions, file system, and product key. Here's what I have:[Data] AutoPartition=1 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" [userData] ProductKey=XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXAny ideas for the new guy?Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tguy Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 Take a look at these parameters, depending on the value you choose it will determine how partitioning is set.[Data] AutoPartition=1[unattended] FileSystem-ConvertNTFS Repartition=No ExtendOemPartition=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daemonforce Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 I was wondering why this was only happening on NT 4.0.o_OAre there more parameters for partitioning or is this it?Oh yeah, remember to make that Unattend.txt into a WINNT.SIF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tguy Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 Being asked to partition the hard disk(s) happens on NT4, W2K, XP, W2K3 collectively. I do not believe that all of the parameters I first listed apply to NT 4. Is there a particular reason you are still installing an unsupported OS? Besides being unsupported, NT 4 as you may know lacks Plug-n-play support as well so device driver installation is much more tricky. If you can, install at least W2K.Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daemonforce Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 It's actually a great backup storage and web server on a domain. I didn't get Windows 2000 Advanced Server until later, so the upgrade will probably happen.I make it my duty to support a minimum OS count:3 Windows workstations3 Windows servers2 live distributionsJust waiting for Longhorn server so I can toss NT 4. NT 4 doesn't eat a lot of resources though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
furious_george Posted November 2, 2005 Author Share Posted November 2, 2005 Thanks for the 411...I am making progress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 NT 4 doesn't eat a lot of resources though.It can't do much compared to 2000 or 2003, either . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daemonforce Posted November 2, 2005 Share Posted November 2, 2005 2000 is ok but old. At least it like clustering. 2003 just p***es me off to no end. It doesn't belong on an old 400MHz K6 box and I'm starting to believe it's time to upgrade and overclock a 550 just to keep up with minimum requirements(SQL Express) and speed resources. >.<' I have a 2003 box switching back and forth every month at home set as either a web server or domain controller. For some reason FTP is broken in IIS 6.0 in Windows Server 2003 but it's absolutely perfect in Windows .NET Server 2003. What a failure. Now I know SP1 did something to it. >.<'It's also a problem Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 What exactly is broken? We run huge FTP servers at MS on Windows 2003 without issues (other than FTP being an incredibly insecure protocol, but I digress)... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daemonforce Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 What exactly is broken?FTPWe run huge FTP servers at MS on Windows 2003 without issues (other than FTP being an incredibly insecure protocol, but I digress)...Nothing is wrong with it. It's just that the FTP part of IIS is fux0r3d once SP1 is installed. I have no idea why this happens. People used to be able to access my FTP, Now they just get OK'd and then the connection immediately gets KO'd. x_X'I don't have this problem in Windows .NET Server or Windows Server 2003 pre-SP1. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cluberti Posted November 3, 2005 Share Posted November 3, 2005 And a netmon of a connection from the client failing to the server says.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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