Unattended XP Pro deployment - disk partitioning

[Armand Collin]

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

 

[Mario Schmidt]

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?

AFAIK - no.

 

[Alex Ignatenko]

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

 

[Armand Collin]

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