How to get unattended XP CD to allow me to...

[Marztabator]

I intend to make a multi-boot system. Say I chose to set out my two 40Gb hard disks as the following:

C: Win95OSR2 - FAT32 - 2Gb

D: Win98SE - FAT32 - 4Gb

E: Apps9x - FAT32 - 5Gb

F: Swap9x - FAT32 - 2Gb

G: WinXP - NTFS - 8Gb

H: AppsXP - NTFS - 5Gb

I: SwapXP - NTFS - 2Gb

J: Games - FAT32 - 20Gb

K: Spare Stuff - FAT32 - 20Gb

I install the two 9x OSes first. So I want to be able to manually choose the partition I want to install XP in, and make it do the rest afterwards. Are there any settings that will allow me to do so?

[Bachus]

Autopartition=0 as I recall...

[Marztabator]

Actually, come to think of it - how can I make it allow me to choose the filesystem for the chosen partition? I might want to choose the full format each time instead of quick format...

[Bachus]

This should be somewhere in your winnt.sif then:

[Data]
    AutoPartition=0

[Unattended]
    Repartition=No

With that, Setup will let you choose the partition and whether to quick format or not.

and just out of curiosity, why do you install both 95 and 98?

[Marztabator]

Well, 95 would come in handy if I want to sort things out ultra quick, and 98 I could use for some more advanced stuff that 95 likely can't handle.

Thanks for the switch info anyway!