dr_pr0phet

Hey mjt, I was in your position at the beginning of this week. I now have Version 1 of my XPSP3 disc plus a few apps and driver installations on there. It would of been sooner but a demading wife and child puts a damper on things Is the disc you have an unattended installation disc? i.e. you put the disc in and don't have to input any information and end up with a fully functioning windows installation a while later? or does it just have service packs already added and you have to go through the standard installation answering loads of questions?? The whole point of the Unattended install is you put the disc in walk away and drink a few coffee's, come back and hey presto a fully built windows box right before your very eyes. I started here Unattended Windows which takes you through a step by step, easy to understand intro to making an unattended install disc. Sorry if you have read that page already, but it takes you through Begginer to Advanced level installation discs. Just follow the steps and when you begin to start not understanding things, read up on them a bit. You can find anything you are looking for in the installation guide or throughout these forums. If you can't find it in here google it. Sounds to me that you would like to install hotfixes and application?? Try: Getting Hotfixes Installing Hotfixes Introduction And Methods of Install And Driver Installation And Application Introduction The Application Installation is in Intermediate users (top left of the page in the above links) I'm also a n00b so if i'm not answering you question....sorry Anyway...Hope this helps

ners, Thankyou very much for your help. i have finally got it sorted. I used your example of adding the text to the end of my txtsetup.sif file instead of adding it within the file, i don't know what difference it made but its worked. I used exactly the same text as before just added it to the end of the file........... I'm now plugging slowly through adding my prefered apps which seems to be going really well so far. Rgds pr0phet

The above error only occurs when i change OemPreinstall= to Yes. It works fine when left as "No". Any ideas?

I am installing SATA driver by editing TXTSETUP.SIF and my WINNT.SIF files as explained in the driver section of the forum. Here's my file: ;SetupMgrTag [Data] AutoPartition=0 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" AutomaticUpdates=yes [unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes TargetPath=\WINDOWS UnattendSwitch=Yes WaitForReboot=No Keyboardlayout="United Kingdom" OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\000;Drivers\000\1;Drivers\000\A;Drivers\000\B;Drivers\000\C;Drivers\000\D;Drivers\000\E;Drivers\000\F;Drivers\000\G;Drivers\000\H;Drivers\000\I;Drivers\000\J;Drivers\000\K;Drivers\000\L;Drivers\000\M;Drivers\000\N;Drivers\001\A;Drivers\001\B;Drivers\001\C;Drivers\001\D;Drivers\001\E;Drivers\001\F;Drivers\001\G;Drivers\001\H;Drivers\001\I;Drivers\001\J;Drivers\001\K;Drivers\001\L;Drivers\001\M;Drivers\001\N;Drivers\001\O;Drivers\001\P;Drivers\001\Q;Drivers\001\R;Drivers\001\S;Drivers\001\T;Drivers\001\U;Drivers\001\V;Drivers\002\A;Drivers\002\B;Drivers\002\C;Drivers\002\D;Drivers\003\A;Drivers\003\B;Drivers\003\C;Drivers\003\D;Drivers\006\A;Drivers\006\B;Drivers\006\C;Drivers\006\D" [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=xxxxxxxxxxxx EncryptedAdminPassword=NO OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=85 OemSkipWelcome=1 [userData] ProductKey=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx FullName=xxxxxxxxxxxx OrgName=xxxxxxxxxxxxx ComputerName=xxxxxxxxxxx [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=1 SystemLocale=00000809 UserLocale=00000809 InputLocale=0809:00000809 [branding] BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes Home_Page=www.google.co.uk [identification] JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

After i changed that entry in the winnt.sif file i keep getting this, i haven't changed anything else in any other files. I have change the entries back to the way they were and still i get this error message. Is the manufacturers file referring to winnt.sif? or another file? This is the error i receive:

DOH, my OemPreinstall was set to NO Thanks a lot bro

Firstly, the information i have found throughout these forums and in guides has been brilliant, i have had no experience of building an unattended install disc before. I have managed to get all the drivers etc in the right places to enable my SATA drive to be picked up The operating system and answer-file work correctly. I am using the RunOnceEx approach to install third party apps/programs. Instead of burning to disc each time i make a change, I am using VMWorkstation to test my installers. The first time i ran the .iso from from the virtual drive all went well until the RunOnceEX, all the apps to install showed up in the GUI but i had an error for each app in turn - the apps couldn't be found to be installed. RunOnceEx was looking to C:\install\ for the apps and my distribution folder path for my apps is $OEM$\$1\install\. Does anyone know if i missed anything out anywhere to copy the files over as they should for install? Do distribution folders work as they should in VMWare? Thanks in advance.....