Wds Unattend file

[staylor1972]

Hello

 

I've finally taken the plunge and set out WDS server up to install via UEFI. The server seems to be working fine but i'm having issues using the client unattended installation.

 

The issue I've run into is with the Disk Configuration section where I need to create the extra partitions. on some PC's it seems to only see 2 partitions instead of the 4 that I've stated in the unattend.xml file - i'm assuming these are the partitions that were already on the drive as it complains about them being MBR rather that GPT rather than It creating new ones.

 

Here's what's in the file if some could have a quick look and point me in the right direction please:

 

Never

*DOMAIN*

*PASSWORD*

*ACCOUNT*

3

16

MSR

1

500

Primary

2

100

EFI

true

4

Primary

NTFS

WinRE

1

1

DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC

FAT32

System

2

2

3

3

NTFS

Windows

C

4

4

0

true

OnError

0

4

en-US

en-US

en-US

en-US

en-US

[Arthur]

   
       
  
               
                   Never
                   
                       *DOMAIN*
                       *PASSWORD*
                       *ACCOUNT*
                   
               
                      

               
                   
                       
                           3
                           [color="#FF0000"]16[/color]
                           MSR
                       
                       
                           1
                           500
                           Primary
                       
                       
                           2
                           100
                           EFI
                       
                       
                           true
                           4
                           Primary
                       
                   
                   
                       
                           NTFS
                           WinRE
                           1
                           1
                           DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC
                       
                       
                           FAT32
                           System
                           2
                           2
                       
                       
                           3
                           3
                       
                       
                           NTFS
                           Windows
                           C
                           4
                           4
                       
                   
                   0
                   true
               
               OnError
           
           
               
                   
                       0
                       4
                   
               
           
       
       
           
               en-US
           
           en-US
           en-US
           en-US
           en-US
       
   
   

You MSR partition is only 16MB. It should be 128MB.

[staylor1972]

Thanks for getting back to me Arthur. I've changed the MSR partition to 128 now but am still getting a problem.

 

PC's that have been previously built via PXE come up asking Where do you want to install Windows and has the old MBR disks still present so wont install.

 

What I've done is delete these two disks then tried to rebuild. It gets to the same screen asking me where do you want to install Windows and shows the 4 Partitions now but you have to click the next button in order for it to install.

 

just wondering if there is a way for it to automatically delete the partitions that are already there and carry on the installation process without clicking next?

 

It all worked fine when it was set up as PXE!