2003 R2 Unattend Space Issue

[elarson]

Hello-

I currently have an unattended network installation point set up that works fine for installing Windows 2003. I have a network boot disk that connects to the share, creates a FAT 2GB partition on the new box, via gdisk, then loads the souce files locally and installs the OS etc, everything is good. Recently I modified the unattend to perform an install for 2003 R2 and have a space issue. Everything works fine until the i386 expands after loading to C. At this point I get a message stating there is not enough space left on the 2GB partition to install windows and I am prompted to install the OS to a different partition. I have tried using NLite to reduce the i386 size but can't seem to get it small enough. I have also gone to the unattend.txt and added FileSystem=ConvertNTFS & ExtendOEMPartition=6000 but this appears to only take place after the install is complete. Is there a work around for this issue? Obviously, I am missing some very basic step since everyone seems to be using unattend okay for 2003 R2. Your advise is appreciated.

[mmarable]

Can you alter your boot CD to create a partition larger than 2GB to start with? That's what it is ultimatly going to come down to, the 2GB just isn't large enough.

[elarson]

Thank you for the response. I changed my gdisk options and created a 4 GB FAT32 primary partition. Now, when the install starts I immediately get the message "an internal setup error has occurred. Cannot find a place for a swap file. Seems like the install is acting like there is no valid partition setup to install on, but I have confirmed there is a 4 GB FAT32 one there. Any thoughts?

[mmarable]

Maybe it's the FAT32? I've silently installed R2 without any problems before, so I know it works.