SmartStart Scripting toolkit

[Iain Whyte]

I built a dl380 g3 with the smartstart scripting toolkit (after having built a similar machine with smartstart 7.10 manually) but it didn't partition the drive as I expected ... Both machines have 2 x 36gb drives configured in an array as 1 logical drive as far as the array controller is concerned but from the OS we've configured the array into 2 logical drives (C = 18gb and D = 16gb) ... but the machine done via smartstart toolkit ended up with 1 logical dive the same size as the array (C = 34gb)? ... Can someone advise if this is normal or not? ... I'm thinking we may have to start configuring our logical drive sizes from the array config utility but if that's the case I may not be able to use this to replicate existing machines ...

[Jeff Allen_5]

The problem is in your unattend.txt file. By default there is a line that says ExtendOemPartition=1 which means to use all the array space for the C: drive. You need to set it to equal the number of MB you want the drive to be (like ExtendOemPartition=8172 for an 8GB drive).

[Steve Pitt]

One thing to watch for here is the allocation of the disk space. The default will take all the capacity of the disks unless you specify the size you want.
Be aware the actual size you get for the first partition will be the size you want + 2Mb (A Microsoft thing) and will also depend on the geometry of the disks you are using, so it is not an exact science.


Steve â Bug-Manâ