InstallToAvailablePartition (Standard 8 Module Reference)
7/8/2014
Review the applicable Embedded Core modules and any examples for the InstallToAvailablePartition setting in Windows Embedded 8 Standard (Standard 8).
This setting specifies whether to install the Windows Embedded 8 Standard (Standard 8) OS to the first available partition with enough space on the hard disk of the device.
The following list shows how to set this value:
- Set to true to install the OS to the first available partition that has enough space and does not already contain an installation of Standard 8. Setup searches for available partitions starting with disk 0 and partition 1 on the first disk and continuing through all available disks.
- Set to false to specify the partition by using PartitionID in Setup\ImageInstall\OSImage\InstallTo.
If you are installing Standard 8 to a blank disk, you must create and format partitions with the CreatePartitions and ModifyPartitions settings, and set one of the partitions as the active partition. After the partitions are created and formatted, use the InstallToAvailablePartition setting to select the first available partition with enough space to install Standard 8.
Comparison of OSImage Settings: InstallTo and InstallToAvailablePartition
For unattended installations, you must specify either the InstallTo setting or the InstallToAvailablePartition setting.
Path |
Description |
|---|---|
Setup\ImageInstall\OSImage\InstallTo |
Installs Windows Embedded 8 Standard (Standard 8) to a specified disk and partition. |
Setup\ImageInstall\OSImage\InstallToAvailablePartition |
Installs Windows Embedded 8 Standard (Standard 8) to the first available partition that has enough space and does not already contain an installation of Windows Embedded 8 Standard (Standard 8). |
Note
In the OSImage settings, if you set the InstallToAvailablePartition setting to true, do not set the InstallTo setting.
If both of these settings are set, then an error is logged and installation terminates.
Modules
The following table shows the modules that you can apply this setting to. In Image Configuration Editor (ICE), you can follow the corresponding path to set this setting for a module.
Module |
Path |
|---|---|
Products/Embedded Core/Setup/ImageInstall/OSImage/InstallToAvailablePartition |
XML Example
For an XML example that shows how to set the ImageInstall setting to install both an OS image and a data image, see Setting the ImageInstall Setting XML Example.