Unattended Setup Asks For Partition?

[Eric Malamisura]

I have a Windows 2000 CD with SP4 slipstreamed into it. The problem I
keep running into is that during the text based install it asks for
the partition in which to install to. Based on microsoft technical
articles and other posts on this particular subject I have come up
with the following Answer file sections. (Relevant posted only)

[Data]
AutoPartition = 1
MsDosInitiated = 0
UnattendedInstall = Yes


[Unattended]
Rapartition = Yes,nowait
DriverSigningPolicy = Ignore
FileSystem = ConvertNTFS,nowait
OemSkipEula = Yes
UnattendMode = FullUnattended
OemPreinstall = Yes
TargetPath = \WINNT

Now according to microsoft documentation setup should not ask me to
select a partition of I have AutoPartition=1. The problem is very
concerning to me, the install needs to repartition the drive, reformat
NTFS, and install on the first partition. The computers are OEM from
dell so they will have various install's on them with various
different configurations... A procedure that came to mind was to
create a Dos boot image and use GDisk to format the drive and then
install windows. However if I use the bootdisk emulation on the cd
when windows setup reboots it will reformat again and will continue in
a loop. So a floppy disk would need to be used, this is not a very
feasible option. Does anyone have advice on how to force Windows 2000
Setup to not ask for a partition, or perhaps a way to create a boot
image that will not run if windows setup has already ran...

Thanks,

Eric

 

[Oli Restorick [MVP]]

Check your spelling of "repartition" in the answer file. Also, I'm not
familiar with the ",nowait" on the end of those lines.

I have documented how to create a SP4 CD which boots like the original CD.

www.willowhayes.co.uk/windows2000/custom.doc

Regards

Oli