I am going to assume that Argon Client Deployment Services is a paid product.
I think the DOS boot disk is dead and the Linux boot disk will be limited to Win2K and WinXP. The best solution is WinPE or BartPE bootdisk. The winnt32.exe commandline installer offer some nice options that the winnt.exe installer doesn't have. For now my goal is to see how hard it would we to replace fdisk with diskpart. Paul On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 07:09:12AM -0400, Conrad Lawes wrote: > Because Unattended uses DOS as the launchpad OS to start your Windows > installation, using diskpart is not possible since diskpart is win32 app. > > In order to use DISPART, you will need replace DOS with WinPE. > > WinPE allows you to exploited with native XP environment. This makes it > possible to partition and format the hard disk without having to reboot. > Plus you can format the disk to native NTFS. > > It's unlikely that Microsoft will release WinPE to the general public > anytime soon. In the meantime, I use the Argon Client Deployment Services > which includes a licensed copy of WinPE. CDS allows me to leverage the > functionality of Unattended within the PXE environment. > > > > On 5/8/06, Paul Griffith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Greetings, > > > > I have been looking for commandline versions of parted or fdisk for > > Windows2000 or XP, I am looking at porting install.pl to a Windows > > based boot disk. > > > > *NOTE* I said I am only looking at porting install.pl :-) > > > > The biggest roadblock I see so far is replacing fdisk/parted. Another > > option > > would be to use diskpart.exe (native to Windows) and have install.pl > > automatically generate the script file that diskpart.exe needs. > > > > FYI - dispart uses a basic scripting language, but you can't use the > > commandline. > > > > diskpart.exe /? > > diskpart /s <script> > > > > Any ideas out there? and remember I said I am only looking at porting > > install.pl :-) > > > > Thanks > > Paul > > > > > > -- > > Paul Griffith |York University, Dept. of Computer Science & > > Engineering > > CSE Technical Team|4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] |CSE1003A|Phone: 416-736-2100 x70258|Fax: 416-736-5872 > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > > easier > > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > > > > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 > > _______________________________________________ > > unattended-info mailing list > > unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info > > > > > > -- > Regards, > Conrad Lawes > PXE Guru -- Paul Griffith |York University, Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering CSE Technical Team|4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3 [EMAIL PROTECTED] |CSE1003A|Phone: 416-736-2100 x70258|Fax: 416-736-5872 ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
