Hi all,

I am not yet up to speed on advanced unattended setups using 3rd party that seem to work so well as illustrated on the boards.

I am perplexed as to why my unattend.txt works differently in certain situations.

If i name it winnt.sif and run with local cd then it does what i need i.e. automatically repartition my single C:\ and continue installing.

But if i want to run unattended setup it will not run without asking me to choose a partition for installation

So, i use setup manager to create a remote installation share. I put my unattend in the i386 directory that this creates. When i run an install over the network, my clients stop at the point where i have to choose what partition to install on. I get the blue screen showing existing partitions, which they have. Not even allowed to delete these partitions, as the setup files have already been copied on to them. THIS IS THE PROBLEM

My clients are all single drive machines with existing installations. I thought the repartition - convertfilesystem switches would do the trick

Here is my unattend. Any help please?

;SetupMgrTag

[Data]

AutoPartition=1

MsDosInitiated="0"

UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[unattended]

UnattendMode=FullUnattended

OemSkipEula=Yes

OemPreinstall=Yes

TargetPath=\WINDOWS

ConvertFileSystem=Yes

Repartition=Yes

WaitForReboot=No

DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore

OemPnPDriversPath = Drivers\Modem

[GuiUnattended]

AdminPassword=*

EncryptedAdminPassword=NO

AutoLogon=Yes

AutoLogonCount=1

OEMSkipRegional=1

TimeZone=85

OemSkipWelcome=1

[userData]

ProductKey=xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx

FullName="s"

OrgName=""

ComputerName=*

[LicenseFilePrintData]

AutoMode=PerServer

AutoUsers=5

[TapiLocation]

CountryCode=44

AreaCode=0208

[RegionalSettings]

LanguageGroup=1

SystemLocale=00000809

UserLocale=00000809

InputLocale=0809:00000809

[setupMgr]

ComputerName0=wkst02

DistFolder=C:\windist

DistShare=windist

[identification]

JoinDomain=example

DomainAdmin=ADMINISTRATOR

[Networking]

InstallDefaultComponents=No

[NetAdapters]

Adapter1=params.Adapter1

[params.Adapter1]

INFID=*

[NetClients]

MS_MSClient=params.MS_MSClient

[NetServices]

MS_SERVER=params.MS_SERVER

[NetProtocols]

MS_TCPIP=params.MS_TCPIP

[params.MS_TCPIP]

DNS=No

UseDomainNameDevolution=No

EnableLMHosts=Yes

AdapterSections=params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1

[params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1]

SpecificTo=Adapter1

DHCP=No

IPAddress=192.168.1.3

SubnetMask=255.255.255.0

DefaultGateway=192.168.1.1

DNSServerSearchOrder=192.168.1.2

WINS=No

NetBIOSOptions=0

I am experiencing the same issue...

Here is what is in my WINNT.SIF:

[Data]

AutoPartition=1

MsDosInitiated="0"

UnattendedInstall="Yes"

FileSystem=ConvertNTFS

Repartition=Yes

Thanks,

David

Edited December 22, 200520 yr by dahvaio

dahvaio, i don't have this problem with the WINNT.SIF, still hoping to find out why this works and my unattended installation doesn't (see first post)

Your winnt.sif should work, move Convertfilesystem and Repartition to the [unattended] section of your answer file, as per my first post