Unattend won't work!!!!!!!!

Customization Tweaking 1789 This topic was started by wannabeageek, 2004-08-19 17:06

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2004-08-19 19:06

*Banging head on keyboard*

I have been trying, unsuccessfully to use unattended install for windows xp for 5 days of my spare time now, and have a dozen CD/RW's sitting here waiting to be erased. Out of the 2 copies of XP pro I own, one pre-sp1, the other xpprosp1, and cannot get it to work no matter what I edit, whether I'm trying to use it from a floppy or copied into I386, Whether I have it as unattend.txt, or winnt.sif, whether, i change the path in the batch file to reflect the answer file, or not use the batch file at all. I have read everything from this site, OC.com, and even my XP unleashed book, Notta! Both my copies are OEM's. Is this what is causing this? is there a workaround? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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clutch

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#130920

2004-08-19 23:39

What is it doing? Getting errors? Do you see the floppy being accessed during boot with the CD inserted? Your best bet is to get it ironed out with the floppy first, so let's see what you have (post it).

clutch

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#130921

2004-08-19 23:45

Here's a Win2K one, and you might want to try using the Setup Manager utility from the XP/2003 CD:

;SetupMgrTag
[Data]
AutoPartition=1
MsDosInitiated="0"
UnattendedInstall="Yes"
TargetPath=WINNT

[unattended]
DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
UnattendMode=FullUnattended
OemSkipEula=Yes
OemPreinstall=Yes
Repartition="Yes"
ExtendOEMPartition=1
FileSystem=ConvertNTFS

[GuiUnattended]
AdminPassword=password
AutoLogon=Yes
AutoLogonCount=1
OEMSkipRegional=1
TimeZone=15
OemSkipWelcome=1

[userData]
FullName="Default User"
OrgName="Default Company"
ComputerName=TEST
ProductID="YOURK-EYENT-EREDR-IGHTH-ERE12"

[LicenseFilePrintData]
AutoMode=PerSeat

[identification]
JoinWorkgroup=YOURWORKGRP

[Networking]
InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

[Components]
TSEnable=On
TSKeyboardDrivers=On
TSPrinterDrivers=On
TSClients=On
LicenseServer=0
ApplicationServer=0

[GuiRunOnce]
Command0=D:\Batch\yourbatchfile.bat

wannabeageek

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#130922

2004-08-20 04:48

Here is mine now. It will access the floppy, but it continues right on to text mode. There is also a .txt file in I386, called SETUPACC which is a Accessable setup answer file, and the last line is: UnattendMode = GuiAttend. Is this whats throwing the wrench in the works?

;SetupMgrTag
[Data]
AutoPartition=1
MsDosInitiated="0"
UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[unattended]
UnattendMode=FullUnattended
OemSkipEula=Yes
OemPreinstall=No
TargetPath=\WINDOWS

[GuiUnattended]
AdminPassword="123"
EncryptedAdminPassword=NO
OEMSkipRegional=1
TimeZone=35
OemSkipWelcome=1

[userData]
ProductKey=****-****-****-*****-*****
FullName="joe"
OrgName="Joes mule farm"
ComputerName=Fred

[TapiLocation]
CountryCode=1
Dialing=Tone
AreaCode=555

[identification]
JoinWorkgroup=MSHOME

[Networking]
InstallDefaultComponents=Yes