Unattended autopartitioning

[mariusp66]

Hello,

I built unattended installation WinXP + SP2 Cd which works fine except one thing. Since I would like it to be 100% hands-free I am using autopartition=1 and repartition=Yes. This seem to work if existing partition(s) on disk are NTFS. However, if partitions are of different type, say ext2/3, then repartition option does not work - Windows does not delete those unknown (to Windows) partitions and manual intervention needed with usual questions to delete partition or not etc.

Does anyone experience same problem and, hopefully, found a solutions?

Thanks,

/M.

[tguy]

You may need a WinPE or BartPE install disc to run Diskpart first that would remove the Ext 2/3 partitions and allow you to install.

A boot floppy could be used to do the same thing too but it won't be 100% hands free.

This issue comes up all the time. Search the forum, I'm pretty sure there are solutions on there.