Unattended Install Swap File Location

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J. Sleeper

Can the swap file for a network install be on a network
share? If so, what's the command line syntax for
winnt.exe? I've tried using /t with an absolute path and
by mapping a drive but the only way I can get it to work
is to have the C: drive of the target machine already
formatted.

Also, the file copy portion of the installation takes
over two hours, is this typical? We're 100 Mb switched
and I can ghost the same system in 15 minutes.

Jeff
 
It sounds very much as if you're not loading SmartDrv, which leads to very
slow installation.

The temporary location must be on a local disk, so you need to format the C:
drive first if you wish to use winnt.exe.

Have you thought about RIS?

Regards

Oli
 
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