Unattended XP Pro deployment - disk partitioning

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Armand Collin - 28 May 2007 09:26 GMT

Hi all,

In the SIF file, if I set AutoPartition=1 - the installation partition is
automatically selected. If the value is set to 0, I am prompted for the
installation partition during the text setup.

I would like to set up two partitions in the answer file, C and D for
example. Is it possible?

Thanks in advance,

Armand

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Mario Schmidt - 28 May 2007 10:30 GMT

Armand Collin schrieb:

> Hi all,
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> I would like to set up two partitions in the answer file, C and D for
> example. Is it possible?

AFAIK - no.

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Alex Ignatenko - 28 May 2007 19:54 GMT

as an exotic I believe you could install it to one partition and run
diskpart to create the second one as post-install action.

-Alex

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> Armand

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Armand Collin - 29 May 2007 12:11 GMT

Hi Alex, thanks for your reply.
I tried DISKPART, but it didn't work for me. It seems to me that is possible
to extend a partition if there is contiguous space, but it is not possible
to split partitions or resize them.

I could use a disk duplication tool like Ghost + Sysprep and specify the
partitions on the master image, but I need to use PXE, and seems to me that
those technologies don't work together.

regards,
Armand

> as an exotic I believe you could install it to one partition and run
> diskpart to create the second one as post-install action.
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