RIS autopartition - no doesnt work

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Shayne D. Swann

I have been creating RIS images on a new blade center we have and I want the
ablity to create two partitions on the RIS image. Using a winnt.sif file I
have been able to achieve this by setting the autopatition to "no" how ever
this does not seem to work in RIS.

Is there an equevelent setting for RIS where I can select chose the
partition sizes during install
 
Unfortunately, no. When you were using winnt.sif files, I imagine you were
kicking off setup from DOS and were partitioning with a script. Unattended
setup doesn't have the ability to create partitions of fixed sizes -- it'll
either use what's there, or create one big partition.

The autopartition option sometimes causes confusion. Its purposes is to
determine whether setup should automatically select the partition on which
to install Windows. It is not to do with creating partitions.

Have you thought about using ADS (Automated Deployment Services)? This is a
Windows Server 2003 service (Enterprise Edition only last time I checked)
that is designed for deploying servers. I believe this can do what you
want, although I have never used it.

Alternatively, Windows PE-based solutions have the ability to create custom
partitioning schemes, using diskpart.

I know a lot of people want the option to have a fixed size boot partition
and, optionally, to fill the rest of the disk with a second partition.

Regards

Oli
 
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