Re: RIPREP and repartition

[NIC Student]

RIS will partition the whole drive into one big C drive. It's been
suggested here that you can repartion the drive after RISing by running
DISKPART after the RIS by customizing the [GUIRunOnce] section, here is a
snip (I haven't tried this myself):

There is solution for this!
You can add many partitions with RIS, but automatically after the
first login!!!
This is my solution, and I made more then 400 PC with this:
1. Make one PC, resize system partition with disk utility like Partition
Magic, and leave free space after.
2. Make RipRep Image
3. Change some commands in "\RemoteInstall\Setup\English\Images\<image name
dir>\i386\Templates\riprep.sif" like [RemoteInstall] UseWholeDisk = No
4. make bat file & use disk utility like Microsoft DiskPart with answer
file, were you can set many tings
Something like this in your bat file :
diskpart /s Script.txt
echo y | format d: /fs:ntfs /v:data /q
shutdown /r /t:0

..and this in unattended file (riprep.sif):
[GuiRunOnce]
"<path to file> \<your bat file>.bat"

Also check this out:

http://tinyurl.com/fsuk

 

[Santi]

It's seems to be helpfull but i have tried it without
success; i think that the problem is that the Riprep
image isn't created with the original size because when
the installation starts it formats the whole disk and no
spare space is available to make more partitions (with
the bat in the [GuiRunOnce] section). The diference
between the solution you posted and my situation is that
my first system has two partitions instead of one with
extra space.
Where did you find this? I've tried to find similar
posts but they are unavailable (too old, i think).
Many thanks and best reagards.

-----Original Message-----
RIS will partition the whole drive into one big C drive. It's been
suggested here that you can repartion the drive after RISing by running
DISKPART after the RIS by customizing the [GUIRunOnce] section, here is a
snip (I haven't tried this myself):

There is solution for this!
You can add many partitions with RIS, but automatically after the
first login!!!
This is my solution, and I made more then 400 PC with this:
1. Make one PC, resize system partition with disk utility like Partition
Magic, and leave free space after.
2. Make RipRep Image
3. Change some commands

in "\RemoteInstall\Setup\English\Images\<image name

dir>\i386\Templates\riprep.sif" like [RemoteInstall] UseWholeDisk = No
4. make bat file & use disk utility like Microsoft DiskPart with answer
file, were you can set many tings
Something like this in your bat file :
diskpart /s Script.txt
echo y | format d: /fs:ntfs /v:data /q
shutdown /r /t:0

..and this in unattended file (riprep.sif):
[GuiRunOnce]
"<path to file> \<your bat file>.bat"

Also check this out:

http://tinyurl.com/fsuk

--
Scott Baldridge
Windows Server MVP, MCSE

"Santi"

I've made an image of a system with two FAT32
partitions. I know that the image only contains the
system partition, but when i try to install this image to
an identical system (same hard disk), the installation
doesn't lets me select the partition size (Repartition
and Usewholedisk are set to No) and it automatically
formats the whole disk. Any help? Many thanks.

.

 

[NIC Student]

Hi Santi:

I found that the best search for this group is Google, here is the link tto
search just this group:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=microsoft.public.win2000.setup_deployment

(The URL may break, paste it all).

RIS will examine and image the system drive only, the other partition is
ignored. You probably will need another utility like Ghost to image the
entire physical drive (don't forget to sysprep it first).

--
Scott Baldridge
Windows Server MVP, MCSE

"Santi"

It's seems to be helpfull but i have tried it without
success; i think that the problem is that the Riprep
image isn't created with the original size because when
the installation starts it formats the whole disk and no
spare space is available to make more partitions (with
the bat in the [GuiRunOnce] section). The diference
between the solution you posted and my situation is that
my first system has two partitions instead of one with
extra space.
Where did you find this? I've tried to find similar
posts but they are unavailable (too old, i think).
Many thanks and best reagards.

-----Original Message-----
RIS will partition the whole drive into one big C drive. It's been
suggested here that you can repartion the drive after RISing by running
DISKPART after the RIS by customizing the [GUIRunOnce] section, here is a
snip (I haven't tried this myself):

There is solution for this!
You can add many partitions with RIS, but automatically after the
first login!!!
This is my solution, and I made more then 400 PC with this:
1. Make one PC, resize system partition with disk utility like Partition
Magic, and leave free space after.
2. Make RipRep Image
3. Change some commands

in "\RemoteInstall\Setup\English\Images\<image name

dir>\i386\Templates\riprep.sif" like [RemoteInstall] UseWholeDisk = No
4. make bat file & use disk utility like Microsoft DiskPart with answer
file, were you can set many tings
Something like this in your bat file :
diskpart /s Script.txt
echo y | format d: /fs:ntfs /v:data /q
shutdown /r /t:0

..and this in unattended file (riprep.sif):
[GuiRunOnce]
"<path to file> \<your bat file>.bat"

Also check this out:

http://tinyurl.com/fsuk

--
Scott Baldridge
Windows Server MVP, MCSE

"Santi"

I've made an image of a system with two FAT32
partitions. I know that the image only contains the
system partition, but when i try to install this image to
an identical system (same hard disk), the installation
doesn't lets me select the partition size (Repartition
and Usewholedisk are set to No) and it automatically
formats the whole disk. Any help? Many thanks.

.

 

[Santi]

RIS will examine and image the system drive only, the
other partition is

ignored. You probably will need another utility like Ghost to image the
entire physical drive (don't forget to sysprep it first).

I know this but it's expected that the new riprep system
(their system partition) has the same size of the
original (both systems are identical HW) but it allocates
all of the disk! No spare disk space!. It seems not to
work properly. I'll continue investigating. Many thanks.