Help with custom Win2k install

[joefart]

I am planning on reinstalling Win2k, but before I do, I would like to see if it is possible to customize the installation. What I would like to do is install Win2k on my c:\, but I would like the Documents and Settings folder to be on d:\ and the Program Files folder on e:\. Is this possible? How would I go about doing this? Is there a batch file that I can create that would feed these parameters to the install program?

Thanks in advance and any feedback will be appreciated, though positive will be much more beneficial than negative.

 

[AndyHui]

Once you have installed Win2K, you can move some of those folders using TweakUI.

I would recommend avoiding moving these directories though......they tend to cause unexpected problems if Win2K does not find where it expects them to be.

 

[reneth]

Changing the locations of Documents and Settings/Program Files is possible after having installed WIN2K.
To change the location of Documents and Settings, open Computer Management, open the Properties dialog box of the user, choose the Profile tab and enter the new location in the Profile path. However there are several problems. Even if you set the new location, most of the user profiles are being kept both in C:\Documents and Settings\ and the new location. If your My Documents folder in the new location is too large (larger than the empty room of the C:\ partition), you cannot log into WIN2K. Because of this, I quit changing the location of the user profile.
Changing the location of the program files is quite easy and causes no problem. When you install a new program, just specify the path you want. However, unless you are going to dual boot with WIN98 and want to save disk space, there is no particular benefit in doing so. Moreover some of files of a program may be installed automatically to C:\Program Files even if you specify the path in E:\Program Files, which is ugly and confusing. (I do not know any program moving program files. Magic Mover from PowerQuest does not work under Win2K.)

 

[joefart]

Thank you for the input, but I was hoping to have the default locations switched to the other partitions during installation. While installing, some programs will already be installed to the c:\program files (IE for example.) My goal here is not to have a Program Files in c:\ at all. I know for Win9x, I can use msbatch.exe to create a msbatch.inf file that will feed the installation program certain parameters. I was hoping that the same or similar program can be used for win2k and that moving the default location of these folders is something that can be done through msbatch.inf.

 

[joefart]

any one else want to comment on this?