Unattended Cd Installs To Wrong Drive.

[Dreadnort]

ok, My unattended CD works, almost. As far as functioning as an unattended install it does the job, the only problem is that it unfortunately decided to install itself onto my Slave drive, rather than my primary.

The drives in question are both PATA and are not in any kind of raid configuration. I would imagine it's simply something I need to adjust in the winnt.sif file somewhere. Can anyone help me out ?

;SetupMgrTag
[Data]
    AutoPartition=1    <---  Could this be the root of the problem ?
    MsDosInitiated="0"
    UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[Unattended]
    UnattendMode=FullUnattended
    OemSkipEula=Yes
    OemPreinstall=Yes
    OemPnPDriversPath=Drivers\Win2K_XP_45_23\nv4_disp.inf;Drivers\Lan\bcm4sbxp.inf
    WaitForReboot=No
    UnattendSwitch=Yes
    TargetPath=\WINDOWS

[GuiUnattended]
    AdminPassword=*
    EncryptedAdminPassword=NO
    OEMSkipRegional=1
    TimeZone=85
    OemSkipWelcome=1

[UserData]
    ProductKey=blah blah
    FullName="my name"
    OrgName=""
    ComputerName=Main_PC

[Display]
    BitsPerPel=32
    Xresolution=1024
    YResolution=768
    Vrefresh=85

[RegionalSettings]
    LanguageGroup=1
    Language=00000809

[Identification]
    JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP

[Networking]
    InstallDefaultComponents=No

[NetAdapters]
    Adapter1=params.Adapter1

[params.Adapter1]
    INFID=*

[NetProtocols]
    MS_TCPIP=params.MS_TCPIP

[params.MS_TCPIP]
    DNS=No
    UseDomainNameDevolution=No
    EnableLMHosts=Yes
    AdapterSections=params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1

[params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1]
    SpecificTo=Adapter1
    DHCP=No
    IPAddress=*.*.*.*    
    SubnetMask=*.*.*.*
    DefaultGateway=*.*.*.*
    DNSServerSearchOrder=*.*.*.*,*.*.*.*
    WINS=No
    NetBIOSOptions=0

[Components]
    msmsgs=off
    msnexplr=off
    freecell=off
    hearts=off
    minesweeper=off
    pinball=off
    spider=off
    zonegames=off

[Shell]
    DefaultStartPanelOff = Yes
    DefaultThemesOff = Yes

[GuiRunOnce]
    %systemdrive%\install\main.cmd
    %systemdrive%\install\hotfixes.cmd
    %systemdrive%\install\apps.cmd

[gosh]

You cannot tell setup which partition to install to. The only thing you can do is have setup install on the partition with the most free space. Does the slave drive have more free space then the primary? does your c drive have at least the minimum space requirement (1.5 gigs free)?

-gosh

[Dreadnort]

Thats the funny thing. Drive C was freshly formatted. Drive D had enough free space to install XP, but I assumed XP would install itself to the Primary purely out of logic.

Yeah I know Logic and MS products in harmony ?? what was I thinking!

[gosh]

AutoPartition=1 is gonna tell setup to install on the partition with the most free space i believe (correct me if im wrong). If you set AutoPartition=0 setup will prompt you where you want to instal windows, which is the setting i use (correct me if im wrong).

-gosh

[Dreadnort]

Yeah, thats more or less what I concluded. I went back to the unattended site and looked at it a bit closer. Still it does seem weird that it should have chosen an almost full drive over a completely blank one. Anyway I'll adjust the .sif and it should all come together. Thanks for confirming what I suspected.

It's late, so I'll post my findings tomorrow.