Assign Drive Letters

[tmasso]

Anyone know of a way to assign drive letters at install, preferably as part of an unattended installation.

I've got a scripted install that drops a SP 4 slipstreamed install of Win2k Pro onto the target machine, then slices the disk into a a 4gb O/S and 6gb APPS partitions.

What I would like is for the APPS patition to be assigned to drive letter D:\ and for the CD-ROM to be assigned to drive letter R:
Any ideas?

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[igortsin]

right click on My Computer> manage >Disk managment
Right click on CD drive > Change driver Letter and Path ...> edit
Same way for the Drive D:

 

[tmasso]

Yeah, I know how assign drive letters manually. What I'm after is way of taking care of the task AUTOMATICALLY as part of an unattended install

 

[igortsin]

Ok, you can create temporary virtual driver, just for installation .
subst drive1: drive2:\path

 

[tmasso]

OK, sounds promising. Could you elaborate a little further? Is this something that I include in my answer file, and if so which section?

Can you give me an example of how this works?

Thanks for your comments so far.

 

[tmasso]

Wait a sec, subst??? Isn't that a command for assigning drive letters to folders within an existing partition? How's that going to help me mount logical and physical devices?