oioldman

Knew that prathapml, and the cmd prompt appears and you could see it had copied stuff over, but then system just seemed to stop and even stayed like that overnight, (a good 12hrs). In end shot foot and changed cd-drive, and voila all good.

Exactly what you said. If you read the Virtual PC user guide it will tell you, you can have multiple OSes installed at different stages so you can do that. Install The OS as you want it, saving the image. Then run the image and install apps etc, then when you close the image you have two opens, close and save changes, close do not save changes. You choose your option.

HAve also found that using the known good DVD-ROM in the bad PC it all worked. Looks like the burnt CD's didn't want to work at 48x but did at 40x. So, problem solved. Thanks for help guys.

This page contains what you were after http://unattended.msfn.org/global/reference.htm It was on step4 of the beginners section clicking on the reference link. Maybe not obvious, but i guessed by clicking the links to see what it told me.

i have code i use at home that works, but you need to use something akin to this %windir%\system32\xcopy /E /V /Q <from path> <to path> /E - Copies directories and subdirectories, including empty ones. Same as /S /E. May be used to modify /T. /V - Verifies each new file. /Q - Does not display file names while copying. if you want to use other switches, open a command prompt and type xcopy /? Hope it helps

You need the key under HKEY_CURRENT_USER HKEY_USERS - this will change for each user and i think on reboot and the s-1------- is the users SID Also, tell us what your after with that key and you may find it exist either on this site already or somebody has it that you can borrow.

heres a question, Does anybody have a full list of all the options that can be put in the .ini file?(pref for 6.5.2)

Did a Win98SE boot disk to fdisk and format and found out i had 26MB of bad sectors, so could have been an issue:( Am going to test known good cd-drive in morning and see how get on, but hopefully will be fixed soon

if your using xpsp2 you will have direct 9 already. for the applications, see that thread which will list 90% of applications you have and how to install silently. If you compare the applications you want to install and look at the example you've downloaded you will see how most of it works.

edit: ignore my ramblings. Apologies, old age and eye sight as good as used to be.

@2forza - your assistance with this has been appreciated. Not sure what you mean by this, but yes it is XPSP2. Am doing at present with case side of - fan spins round happily Not sure about other OS, as not needed/wanted Disabled that - no luck Will try the known good cd-drive later in replacement of dodgy! one and see what hapepns.

Done that, and also set the BIOS to load default options - no luck. Also set it to use Performance. The BIOS does have ACPI support otherwise it won't allow XP to be installed, but do you think a BIOS update may work?

As requested, YES working - 396MB RAM, 80GB HDD, Slot1 P3 450Mhz, Nvidia MX400 64MB AGP, Pioneer DVD-ROM NO - 128MB RAM, 4GB HDD, Socket? P3 800Mhz, SIS6326 8MB AGP, Samsung 48x CD-ROM Burnt using a Plextor Premium, with ISO generated using CDImage on Nero 6.1.3.25 at 1x to a Imation CD-R

Thanks for the thought guys. 1.Have left it sitting @39mins for nealry an hour, and then turning of the pc and back on in hope it will pick it up, but it just goes back to same spot. 2.Will transfer the cd-drive over and see if that makes a difference. I know the drives are "supposed" to be 48x, built by samsung, so their not that bad and the cd are by imation, burnt at 1x in hope it would be more reliably burnt.

All, I've managed to create and burn my CD with no issues. It has a few apps and they're select by using WPI. Now, the problem i have is weird and i can't figure what is wrong, so any suggestion are appreciated. If I place this CD in a PC it will, boot as expected, rebuild partition and copy files over. It then does first reboot and install as you want. I have to enter my PC, Compnay Name & Serial Key. I then put this CD into any number of other machine, it boots as expected, rebuild partition and copy files over. It then does first reboot and just stays at the 39mins stage for ever and a day. If i eject the cd it complains about not being able to read d:\i386\asms folder, but if i view the cd, the folder and files exist, because it worked on the other pc no issues. Looking on MS site it does mention that CD is corrupt, but not sure as works in other PC all the time, regular as clockwork. It also said that asms folder is missing or files are 0kb, not right as worked on other pc no issues. So, why does it just sit there? and do nothing? Thanks for ready this and assisting of you can. A frustrated Oldman

durex, your right was sa typo that put the / in front of start. Did you manage to get this working? as i've plugged away and so far no luck.

i dont even have the section in my winnt.sif for computername. It is missing no pointer no quotes nothing.

Read the reply enuffsaid in the other area he also posted a duplicate of this.

beat me to it bledd. Do that, have the fields in you winnt.sif, just no information in them and it will pause at each stage, your enter it and it continues.

Having looked at your set-up lionhrt, I can see nothing wrong with it. The folder structure all looks right and and your config.js file has correct path names in it. Though your reg key for 5CardDeluxe has a spelling mistake within it. (missing the e)

Nero - and can be silent installed

@Astalavista Which files would you like? I can mail you the winnt.sif & the wpi i use if that is what you mean.

hay, no need to slag me off. I found that by doing the UaCD and getting that working with some basic apps like winrar, AV via runonceex.cmd with no issues, it taught me the file structur and commands needed to be called. i then progressed onto doing wpi, so back off. If you took offence, sorry non intended. Which when looking through the example WPI i downloaded it was easier to understand it all. Looking at your command line, c:\wpi\install\games\with all my .exe game files your installing from the folder wpi, but in your config.js file your not calling from there cmd1[pn]=['%systemdrive%\\Install\\Games\\FiveCardDeluxeSetup.exe /silent'] Ref the regfile, if you place at beginning and end you know that thinks like tweaks & registartion info will be applied But then you can keep your 5cents and ignore all i've typed in trying to help.

And what if your not using a title of the dos box?, which i'm not. Having looked at the start /? your correct in that it should be /start "tilte" /wait <command to run>

also, astalavista has writtenn exe for this. read about six topics up called => wpi.cmd to wpi.exe silent no screen