Autopartition=0 Doesn't Work

[drBozo]

I Have a Winnt.Sif file with AutoPartition=0 and Repartition=No. However, when it gets to the disk & partition selection stage, instead of giving me the option to choose my desired partition, it's gives the following message:

The partition you have chosen is too full to contain Windows XP, which requires a drive with at least 990 megabytes (MB) of free disk space.

Go back to the previous screen and select a different partition on which to install.

    * To go back to the previous screen, press ENTER.

It's like it's ingoring the AutoPartition=0 and tries to install into the partition where I started the installation from (it has less than 990MB free disk space so I get the above message).

How can I fix this so I can go straight to the partition selection screen?

I'm starting the installation from DOS using the command:

Winnt /S:. /U:WinNT.SIF

Here is my WinNT.Sif file:

;SetupMgrTag
[Data]
    AutoPartition=0
    MsDosInitiated="0"
    UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[Unattended]
    UnattendMode=ProvideDefault
    OemSkipEula=Yes
    OemPreinstall=No
    TargetPath=\WINDOWS
    Repartition=No
    WaitForReboot=No
    UnattendSwitch=Yes

[GuiUnattended]
    EncryptedAdminPassword=NO
    OEMSkipRegional=1
    TimeZone=135
    OemSkipWelcome=1

[UserData]
    ProductKey=...
    FullName="Muhamad abu-Halil"
    OrgName=""
    ComputerName=ZEUS

[Identification]
    JoinWorkgroup=HOME

[jonnywi]

hi!

my experience is with starting from winnt.exe like

Winnt /S:. /U:WinNT.SIF

the textmode skipps the partition selection screen

also if you have AutoPartition=0

note

winnt.exe methode requires existing formated fat 32 partition.

the setup want to copie files for the setup and after reeboot the setup come to textmode which is normaly started if you have a bootable cd with winnt.sif

[drBozo]

Hi, thanks for the reply.

I havn't made a CD out of this setup yet, but it means that even if I make a CD out of it, I could only use it by booting directly from the CD, since running the setup from DOS will result in it being installed in an unknown partition. No? (**** MS).

Regarding your note, all of my partitions are FAT32 and it completes the 1st stage of installation (copying files) successfully. It then reboot, and I get the above message at the 2nd stage.

[b0r3d]

Try chaning:

UnattendMode=ProvideDefault

to

UnattendMode=FullUnattended

That should do the trick

[gosh]

From experience ive found if you install from the hard drive it'll give you that message, if you install from CD it'll prompt you where you want to install to. It's not a bug it's a "feature"

-gosh

[drBozo]

Try chaning:

UnattendMode=ProvideDefault

to

UnattendMode=FullUnattended

That should do the trick

Tried it (even though I do not want full Unattended) and it didn't help. It still choose for me the installation partition.