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[WIN2003] Unattended Install


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This is what I have:

C: NTFS Existing windows installation

D: NTFS Some Data

E: NTFS Some Data

F: FAT32 Win2003-setupfiles

I copied the entire win 2003 cd to F:

I added a $OEM$ directory and some scripts to automatically install some software. I created an answerfile for unattended installation.

I start winnt32.exe /s:PathToSetupFiles /unattended:PathToAnswerFile

The setup runs perfectly, and everything gets installed BUT

Instead of allowing me what partition to install on, it just installs on the first one (there is already a windows there). He asks if he should use the directory WINDOWS because it already exists, but i don't get any choice of what partition to install on.

[Data]

AutoPartition=0

MsDosInitiated="0"

UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[unattended]

UnattendMode=DefaultHide

OemSkipEula=Yes

OemPreinstall=Yes

TargetPath=\WINDOWS

Repartition=No

If I change AutoPartition to 1, he just installs on D: without asking anything.

I really want to do a complete unattended install EXCEPT for the screen where i can manage and choose partitions...

Any clues?

I already tried http://www.MSFN.org/unattended/2003/ but it seems that i followed those directions but it doesn't work like it should...

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values in winnt.sif are ok, you need to delete the existing partition and recreate it in order to be prompted for formatting and partition options. No disk space or other partitions is effected in this process.

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so this means i will need some third-party software... ?

Since there is an OS on the partition that i want to format and install to...

Right now, i just boot into windows 2000 on C:, and i start winnt32 with necessary parameters.

Some idea about how I do it best?

Since, if i boot with win98 disk, i can not see the different ntfs-partitions, it all looks like one big partition next to a little Fat32 one.

thx in advance

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