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Hey guys! ..thanks for looking @ my problem and I will like to thank you in advanced!! ..

So here is it:

I am setting up an "unattended set up." without a CD. Basically I want to boot from floppy to install i386 which I have on my hdd. (it's all legal!) My problem is when you boot from floppy it see's it as msdos and doesn't reconize the raid controler. How can I make this work? Here is my winnt.sif

;SetupMgrTag [Unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended TargetPath=\WINDOWS OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=No

[UserData] ComputerName=HOMENT FullName="My Name" ProductKey=----***** OrgName="Who Cares, Inc."

[GuiUnattended] ProfilesDir="D:\Documents and Settings" AdminPassword=* TimeZone=4 EncryptedAdminPassword=NO OEMSkipRegional=1 OemSkipWelcome=1

[LicenseFilePrintData] AutoMode=PerServer AutoUsers=9999

[Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

[Identification] JoinWorkgroup=MYHOMEIP

[Data] AutoPartition=0 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[Display] BitsPerPel=32 Xresolution=1280 YResolution=1024

[TapiLocation] CountryCode=1 Dialing=Tone AreaCode=408

[RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=1

[Branding] BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes

[URL] Home_Page=http://www.google.com Search_Page=http://www.google.com

[Proxy] Proxy_Enable=0 Use_Same_Proxy=0

I am using Deploy.cab so I have the regular setup their.

Just so you have everything here is the specs: System (C:) 20GB Docs (D:) 91GB PageFile (P:) 5GB Store (S:) 106 GB —–I have it mirrored— Store (S:) 106 GB —–I have it mirrored— Temp (T:) 5GB

Now what I done was dual booted Windows Server 2003 Standard on C & D but it's not what I want to do. What's going on right now is the .bat file is edited and install's it to C:\\ but I don't want to have to look @ that everytime I restart my server and later on it's going to be a pain when I want to add scripts. But just for fun I will show you the script:

@rem SetupMgrTag
@echo off

set AnswerFile=.\winnt.sif
set SetupFiles=s:\i386

s:\i386\winnt32 /syspart:c /tempdrive:c /s:%SetupFiles% /unattend:AnswerFile% /copysource:lang

..so that's where I am at the moment. I'm stomped. But I will take a brake on this and learn to slipstrim sp1 to s:\i386. Fun ey?

Thanks and I hope someone can help!!


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ghost

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You need to load another Floppy Diskette with raid controller drivers, otherwise the setup program has no idea how to read the data, or write any data to a hard disk.