> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brad Erdman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 8:20 PM
> To: Maas, Mark; [email protected]
> Subject: RE: [Unattended] Setup cannot access the CD co....
> > Another strange thing I've seen is that partioning and formatting
> using
> > the option "complete drive" only partitions and formats 4Gb.
>
> The way unattended works is it creates a small partition to
> copy all the
> files to and then expands the file system once it starts the install.
> You need to make sure you have these in the [Unattended]
> section of your
> unattended text file:
> OemPreinstall = Yes
> UnattendMode = DefaultHide
> FileSystem = ConvertNTFS
> ExtendOemPartition = 1
>
> > I've tried all of this on two different Dell machines. A GX240 and a
> > GX110.
>
> I believe these machines use SATA hard drives, try changing
> the mode the
> BIOS to combination. I'm not sure this will solve your problem, but
> worth a shot.
It is worth a shot, but both systems are IDE based I'm afraid.
Plus I don't mind the hard drive only beeing partitioned and formatted to 4GB. This works fine, there is even some stuf on there:
C:\netinst etc.
The real problem is that windows won't install. It asks for the windows 2000 install cd. Claiming it can't find the setup files. (But I've seen it copy those when I booted the first time. Almost as if they are lost when you reboot for the rest of the installation.)
Anything?
Thanks,
Mark
