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Limiting C: drive size during RIS installation

I have a Windows 2000 Remote Installation Server with a few desktop images on it.

One of my desktop images requires a hard drive partitioned into C: and D: drives. Understanding that RIS will only install a C: drive, is there a way to limit the size of that C: drive, so that it does not automatically use the entire drive? RIS seems to allocate the entire boot hard drive to the system (C:) partition.

Right now, I'm resizing the C: partition after installation, then adding the D: drive. If possible, I'd like to skip the resizing step.

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sloth10k

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Bingo!

By changing the information in the .sif file associated with an installation image, you can restrict the disk reformatting to be the same as what the source computer used to create the installation image. For example, open the Ristndrd.sif file located in the \\REMINST\Setup\Applicable language\Images\Applicable image name\I386\Templates\Ristndrd.sif folder and modify the UseWholeDisk parameter to equal NO. When a client computer installs this image, the disk will be formatted to match the capacity of the source computer and the balance of the destination computer's disk will be unformatted.

Thanks for the assistance.

philippedr

Sloth

Have you tested this with riprep images?

thx