The_Wippuh

Hrmm... it would seem that the reason winnt.sif doesn't work is because it's for cd-rom installs! Thanks! So, all I needed to do was run this from the proper folder. winnt /u:t:\wippuh\winxp\whistl~1\unattend.txt /s:t:\wippuh\winxp\whistl~1\i386 Now, for my next question. Winnt will not see my ntfs drive so I have I have format the drive with fat32 before I install. How do I change the drive format to ntfs in the answer file? Is that possible?

Have you tried manually downloading them and installing them yourself? Possibly in safe mode even? They should be linked from the thread that helps with including drivers that slipstream... http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=86450 Well, couldn't find the second one, but there seems to be a bug for the first one, check it out in that thread.

I saw this happen a lot when we would set up user accounts on a domain. Instead of having a local and domain account both in the docs and settings, we would modify the registry to point both at a singular doc and setting profile and delete the other. A few users would then install a program (usually an engineering program) that would start messing with this and start creating profiles with the .computername000, .computername001, etc... after the username. Ultimately it drove me away from the reg edit that my old boss used and the discovery of cached credentials, which does the same thing basically.

I'm not sure it's the perfect thing for the single home computer. I want to use it for my job where I install 2 or 3 computers every month, usually many more. If I can get the package down I can just set the box/laptop on a shelf behind me, hit a few buttons and not be bogged down for an hour or two answering repetitive questions. For your setup, I'd suggest learning more about the imaging of your system. Creating some backups of your computer when you have it right where you want it. Also, going through all the steps and working them out will really help you if you ever want to grab a job in the field.

I've finally got into the world of unattended installs over the network. I install a ton of computers and have mainly been using images using a network boot cd and drive image. My boss just bought numerous new servers and I'm going to turn an soon to be unused file server into a RIS server. However, I think getting this process down may help my overall experience. Hopefully from here I can go through the rest of the tutorials on this site and really learn what's going on! Here's what I've done, please help me figure out what is going wrong. I have a laptop that is going to be used as a floater to test on. - created a share on the network - create a primary, active fat32 partition on the laptop - load network driver from boot cd that maps the shared drive to T: - go to my shared network drive and run winnt This all goes to plan easily, but now is where I start having problems. I have a floppy in the drive with both winnt.sif and winnt.bat, but the install goes just like it does with a cd install. My winnt.bat file contents... My winnt.sif file contents... Anything wrong? Should my winnt.sif work? Do I need a switch with winnt.exe? In addition, can I add someway to automate the changing of the drive from fat32 to ntfs? Thanks! btw, nice board, works really well with firefox. None of the others seem to.