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Click to See Complete Forum and Search --> : Install Win 2000 unattend with C: equal to 4GB Sandra 10-01-2002, 03:49 AM Hi all, did anybody know how to setup Windows 2000 Professional unattend with 3 partitions c:, d: and e: AND the size of c: equal to 4 GB? Thanks a lot for all help, Sandra Richard Grakowsky 10-01-2002, 09:52 AM Hi Sandra, Try this... 1) Use FDISK to create your 4GB system disk. Do NOT create any other partitions as the unattended installation will automatically install the system files to the largest partition. Handle that part of the partitioning when you get the system up. 2) Create your unattend file and in the Unattended section, set Repartition="No" (w/ the quotes) and FileSystem=ConvertNTFS (just in case). During the text portion of the installation, it will stop to verify that you want it installed on that 4GB partition. Make sure that you JUST hit the key strokes to confirm (I think its 3 "yes I really want it here" questions). If you hit any other keys or arrows, the unattended setup will stop being unattended. By hitting just those keys, it will format and go about its business. Hope this helps, Rick ------------ Sandra at 10/1/2002 4:49:16 AM Hi all, did anybody know how to setup Windows 2000 Professional unattend with 3 partitions c:, d: and e: AND the size of c: equal to 4 GB? Thanks a lot for all help, Sandra Sandra 10-09-2002, 04:00 AM Hi Rick, sorry, it doesn't help... How to create a primary 4GB partition or a 4GB drive in the extended partion with FDISK??? the maximum size is 2 GB... Thanks in advance, Sandra ------------ Richard Grakowsky at 10/1/2002 10:52:48 AM Hi Sandra, Try this... 1) Use FDISK to create your 4GB system disk. Do NOT create any other partitions as the unattended installation will automatically install the system files to the largest partition. Handle that part of the partitioning when you get the system up. 2) Create your unattend file and in the Unattended section, set Repartition="No" (w/ the quotes) and FileSystem=ConvertNTFS (just in case). During the text portion of the installation, it will stop to verify that you want it installed on that 4GB partition. Make sure that you JUST hit the key strokes to confirm (I think its 3 "yes I really want it here" questions). If you hit any other keys or arrows, the unattended setup will stop being unattended. By hitting just those keys, it will format and go about its business. Hope this helps, Rick ------------ Sandra at 10/1/2002 4:49:16 AM Hi all, did anybody know how to setup Windows 2000 Professional unattend with 3 partitions c:, d: and e: AND the size of c: equal to 4 GB? Thanks a lot for all help, Sandra 10-09-2002, 06:00 AM Hi, sorry once more... With the FDISK of Win98 it works. Now another question: I want to automate the FDISK using an answer file. Does anybody know how to "say ESCAPE" in an answer file (text file)? Thanks in advance, Sandra ------------ Sandra at 10/9/2002 5:00:14 AM Hi Rick, sorry, it doesn't help... How to create a primary 4GB partition or a 4GB drive in the extended partion with FDISK??? the maximum size is 2 GB... Thanks in advance, Sandra ------------ Richard Grakowsky at 10/1/2002 10:52:48 AM Hi Sandra, Try this... 1) Use FDISK to create your 4GB system disk. Do NOT create any other partitions as the unattended installation will automatically install the system files to the largest partition. Handle that part of the partitioning when you get the system up. 2) Create your unattend file and in the Unattended section, set Repartition="No" (w/ the quotes) and FileSystem=ConvertNTFS (just in case). During the text portion of the installation, it will stop to verify that you want it installed on that 4GB partition. Make sure that you JUST hit the key strokes to confirm (I think its 3 "yes I really want it here" questions). If you hit any other keys or arrows, the unattended setup will stop being unattended. By hitting just those keys, it will format and go about its business. Hope this helps, Rick ------------ Sandra at 10/1/2002 4:49:16 AM Hi all, did anybody know how to setup Windows 2000 Professional unattend with 3 partitions c:, d: and e: AND the size of c: equal to 4 GB? Thanks a lot for all help, Sandra Rick Grakowsky 10-15-2002, 04:25 PM Hi, Glad you got it to work, but I dont think that you can make FDisk directly part of the unattended setup. I ended up creating a separate bootable floppy whose only purpose is to create my system disk. I'm not sure which version of FDisk that I have, but it allows me to pass my partition information on the command line. For example: fdisk 1 /PRI:9216 creates a 9GB primary partition. What you might be able to do if you wanted them on the same disk is this... 1) Create a bootable floopy that create the system disk as mentioned above and also put your SIF file on there. 2) Set the BIOS to boot CD, Floppy, Hard Disk 3) Leave the CD ROM empty and boot off the floopy to make the system disk. 4) When its done and reboots, drop in the W2K Server CD and boot from it. It should look and find the SIF file on the CD. I'm pretty sure that it copies the SIF file local during the text portion of the setup so you should be able to remove the floppy disk after the first reboot. If you dont remove, it'll just end up booting off it over and over and wiping your disk clean. The two-disk method isnt perfect, but its easy. Hope this helps, Rick ------------ at 10/9/2002 7:00:42 AM Hi, sorry once more... With the FDISK of Win98 it works. Now another question: I want to automate the FDISK using an answer file. Does anybody know how to "say ESCAPE" in an answer file (text file)? Thanks in advance, Sandra ------------ Sandra at 10/9/2002 5:00:14 AM Hi Rick, sorry, it doesn't help... How to create a primary 4GB partition or a 4GB drive in the extended partion with FDISK??? the maximum size is 2 GB... Thanks in advance, Sandra ------------ Richard Grakowsky at 10/1/2002 10:52:48 AM Hi Sandra, Try this... 1) Use FDISK to create your 4GB system disk. Do NOT create any other partitions as the unattended installation will automatically install the system files to the largest partition. Handle that part of the partitioning when you get the system up. 2) Create your unattend file and in the Unattended section, set Repartition="No" (w/ the quotes) and FileSystem=ConvertNTFS (just in case). During the text portion of the installation, it will stop to verify that you want it installed on that 4GB partition. Make sure that you JUST hit the key strokes to confirm (I think its 3 "yes I really want it here" questions). If you hit any other keys or arrows, the unattended setup will stop being unattended. By hitting just those keys, it will format and go about its business. Hope this helps, Rick ------------ Sandra at 10/1/2002 4:49:16 AM Hi all, did anybody know how to setup Windows 2000 Professional unattend with 3 partitions c:, d: and e: AND the size of c: equal to 4 GB? Thanks a lot for all help, Sandra Serverwatch.com
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