RE: [Unattended] Just format drive C: and leave other partitions untouched - possible?
Did this work for you? Unfortunately it deletes all partitions. If you found a way to do it properly, let me know. Thanks Jan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick J. LoPresti Sent: Friday, September 17, 2004 2:44 PM To: Gerhard Hofmann Cc: unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Unattended] Just format drive C: and leave other partitions untouched - possible? Gerhard Hofmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi list, most of our staff save their documents to drive D: In case Windows is messed up, we just format drive C:, leave D: untouched and reinstall Windows and all applications. How can this be done with unattended? Must I remaster the boot disk to provide a partition scheme like the one mentioned above? Or is it in \\server\install\lib\unattend.txt? You probably want to edit Z:\site\unattend.txt, not Z:\lib\unattend.txt. We own the latter, so it may change in future releases. Try putting this in Z:\site\unattend.txt: [_meta] fdisk_cmds=fdisk /delete /pri:1;fdisk /pri:4000;fdisk /activate:1 This will delete the first partition and replace it with a 4000M FAT32 partition. The first command (fdisk /delete) will probably fail if the drive is blank... There is no way to fix that without writing some Perl for Z:\site\config.pl. But as long as the first partition exists, this will cause Unattended to blow it away and replace it with a fresh Windows installation. - Pat --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php ___ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Oracle Space Sweepstakes Want to be the first software developer in space? Enter now for the Oracle Space Sweepstakes! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_idt12alloc_id344op=click ___ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
[Unattended] Just format drive C: and leave other partitions untouched - possible?
Hi list, most of our staff save their documents to drive D: In case Windows is messed up, we just format drive C:, leave D: untouched and reinstall Windows and all applications. How can this be done with unattended? Must I remaster the boot disk to provide a partition scheme like the one mentioned above? Or is it in \\server\install\lib\unattend.txt? Regards Gerhard --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
Re: [Unattended] Just format drive C: and leave other partitions untouched - possible?
Gerhard Hofmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi list, most of our staff save their documents to drive D: In case Windows is messed up, we just format drive C:, leave D: untouched and reinstall Windows and all applications. How can this be done with unattended? Must I remaster the boot disk to provide a partition scheme like the one mentioned above? Or is it in \\server\install\lib\unattend.txt? You probably want to edit Z:\site\unattend.txt, not Z:\lib\unattend.txt. We own the latter, so it may change in future releases. Try putting this in Z:\site\unattend.txt: [_meta] fdisk_cmds=fdisk /delete /pri:1;fdisk /pri:4000;fdisk /activate:1 This will delete the first partition and replace it with a 4000M FAT32 partition. The first command (fdisk /delete) will probably fail if the drive is blank... There is no way to fix that without writing some Perl for Z:\site\config.pl. But as long as the first partition exists, this will cause Unattended to blow it away and replace it with a fresh Windows installation. - Pat --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php ___ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
