Re: RIS "unable to format partition" error

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From: NIC Student (nospam_at_nospam.land)
Date: 03/09/04

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Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 13:29:09 -0800

How are you slipstreaming the image with the service packs?

1. copy the cd-based image to your drive,
2. extract the SP to a separate folder on the drive
3. slipstream the SP to the cd-based i386 folder
4. run RISETUP on the RIS server and point to the slipstreamed i386 folder.

-- 
Scott Baldridge
Windows Server MVP, MCSE
"Tom Jones"
> Hi there,
>    I have a problem with RIS which seems to be pretty widespread on the
net
> but I can't find any answers to. I am using a Windows 2003 server as my
RIS
> server and it fails to install Windows XP SP1a and Windows 2003 Server
with
> the following error:
>
> Setup was unable to format the partition. The disk may be damamged.
>
> From reading online though many people had said this seems to be caused by
> an update to XP. To rule that out I made a plain Windows XP template and
> that installs prefectly so it is diffinitely something in SP1 which is
> causing the problem. I wonder has anyone here got past that problem?
> Cheers for your time
> Tom.
>
>

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