Re: RIPREP and repartition

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.

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.
>
>
>.
>

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=...etup_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.
> >
> >
> >.
> >

>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.