Partitioning in RIS ?

[preben]

Say you want to install a computer, and that computer has a harddrive of 50GB.

Now, you want RIS to create a partition on only 10GB (in other words, don't use the entire harddrive)

I've been playing around with the .sif file, and here is what I got:

[RemoteInstall]

Repartition=Yes

UseWholeDisk=No

PartitionSize=10000000

This looks correct to me. That it will format a 10GB disk, and not use the harddrives 50GB.

But it doesn't work. Any idea guys ???

/Preben

[RogueSpear]

This has been brought up several times now and I've yet to see a definitive answer or solution. I wish I could help you out, but I'm also looking an explanation. There has to be someone out there that does this on their workstations.

[preben]

I've been searching around, and I've seen people using bart pe. But how ?

Do they RIS a bartPE image, or just use partitioning features of BartPE ?

How do I implement those features ??

//Preben

[RogueSpear]

Check out this link which will give you a links to information that should help you out.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/desktopde...En_5.mspx#EFUAI

http://www.tomspeirs.co.uk/bartpeonris.htm

Edited June 13, 2006 by RogueSpear

[cluberti]

I've never had luck partitioning in RIS either - I first boot to WinPE in RIS, have a script that runs diskpart.exe to create the drive and format it, then kick off the Windows setup from there. I think that's the most reliable option, but someone else may have some suggestions.

[chiners_68]

Hi Guys,

I havent automated the partiton size but for each install i have two sif files. ones is set to

[RemoteInstall]

Repartition=Yes

UseWholeDisk=yes

to basically partition the size of the drive..

my other sif file has this option set.

[RemoteInstall]

Repartition=no

UseWholeDisk=yes

this brings up the XP partition option page so you can set whatever size of partition you want then the install will continue unattended.

So basically i have one install that partitons the whole drive automatically & the second install prompts for a partition to be set which i can alter per machine. yes its a small manual imput but its right at the start of the install & i can vary parttion asizes so its one worth having.

Edited June 19, 2006 by chiners_68

[RogueSpear]

I think that's a pretty good solution to the issue myself. I would imagine that in any given place only a few machines at most would need special handling of partitions like that.

[luke.mccormick]

this solution doesn't work for me. I am an OEM Sys builder and love how RIS works, but the repartition - no usewholedisk - yes still automatically partitions and formats the drive.

[Aracnox]

what two file?

[SebastianM]

The "Repartition = No" thing works great here, but I got another problem.

My company wants me to install application, profiles etc. on a 2nd partition (normally D:\).

When I create a 2nd partition at the beginning of the windows xp setup process I'll get the E:\ letter for that drive (seems logical cause there's a CD/DVD drive in that PC).

My question is: How can I force windows xp setup to use the D:\ letter for the 2nd partition and the E:\ letter for the CD/DVD drive?

Thanks in advance for any help!

So far

Sebastian

[mmarable]

You can use a diskpart script that will switch the drive letters around.

Kind of like this:

SEL DISK 0
SEL PART 2
REMOVE
SEL VOL 0
ASSIGN LETTER E
SEL DISK 0
SEL PART 2
ASSIGN LETTER D
RESCAN
EXIT

What this does is select the second partition on drive 0, removes the drive letter (E in this case), selects the CDROM, assigns E: to that, then goes back and assigns D: to the second partition on drive 0.

Partitioning in RIS is not available. All you can do it turn off the autopartitioning and manually do it.