I am testing my unattended install CD on virtualPC 2004, and only part of the winnt.sif was used. It picked out parts that got used, but others didn't. I told it not to install MSN explorer or Messenger, but they are in there. It did pick up my other settings, and some stuff fine, but didn't chose my locale right either, just used the default GMT instead of Central. I created winnt.sif with the appropriate wizzard. In addition, my cmdlines.txt never got executed. Why is this? It runs fine when I execute it from a command prompt? I thought I didn't have to declare it's existence anywhere. Is that true? winnt is parsed by setup and is located in the i386 folder. cmdlines.txt is in the $OEM$ folder. The files got moved to the HD fine during install, but were never actually executed. Here's the files: winnt.sif cmdlines.txt
