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Donofrio, Lewis Tue, 09 May 2006 04:19:08 -0700

Title: Re: [Unattended] Win2k/XP commandline utils to replace fdisk/parted

Ahhhm...barts pe...its legal and free (you provide code base of os, it builds the iso you'd be using) builds exactly like winpe.

--and if anyone has seen my posting will recall my fortelling of the 8/16 bit dos winnt.exe death. (Do not expect to see one in vista and beyond.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Paul Griffith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tue May 09 07:09:12 2006
Subject: Re: [Unattended] Win2k/XP commandline utils to replace fdisk/parted

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


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