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I have my XP working nicely. How I want it. Has a fair few slipstreamed drivers for everything, and it's all good. Now I want the same for 2000 and 2003. What changes? Can I just do a copy/paste of $1 and txtsetup.sif and a quick mod of unattend.txt? I think all the drivers are the same, but I think/just confirm there isnt a major change with the driver structure, of unattend.txt, or txtsetup.sif formatting. Cheers

Does this also mean, if you have a working XP unattended setup, which has all drivers etc slipstreamed, a simply copy/paste of TXTSETUP.SIF, and your $1 folder, and your unattend.txt, will still work?

Can you expand on this more please? Basically, my biggest problem (and most annoying thing) - is the initial reboot to start setup. To insytall XP currently on any computer (whether it has or hasn't got an OS), I'm doing the following GDisk to format reboot to detect new 2Gb fat16 partition then start winnt.exe If I could tell Windows XP setup (and windows 2000) inside setup itself, to format the first drive in the computer using NTFS to it's fullsize, and continue (because when you do a MANUAL XP install, you can EASILY do this) this will cutout the need to reboot which is what i want...

Sorry, I don't quite understand. I swear I have seen %VARS% inside answer files before...

I have an environement variable (%COMP%) which by means of scripting/couple programs I've written obtains the current machines hostname. Is it possible to pass this into Windows 2000 and XP unattended installations to make them use this environement variable as it's Computer Name? Can I just inside unattend.txt go ComputerName=%COMP% ? Thanks

Currently I am using MSDOS network bootdisks (Barts) and this is basically how Windows 2000/XP Is being installed. Load Bootdisk, map network drives, then I created an unattend.bat which does the following. First time it's run (it sets a flag.txt file) it uses gdisk to do a format and creates a 2gb fat16 partition. Then reboots, then back into the bootdisk, then when you run unattend.bat again it sees the flag.txt file, and starts installing windows passing it the unattend.txt file and the i386 DIR as parameters. It works, and it's good, but it annoys me that I need to do two reboots to start the install. I'm trying to streamline this process as much as possible, one day having a system which running a single .bat file, will install Windows, with all drivers slipstreamed. Allowing me to install it onto any system with any hardware config, and it won't need F6 for SCSI/RAID drivers, and it will auto install all video cads/NICs etc.