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is it possible to automate the installation of the inf files and setup_wm afterwards? so that the installation can be integrated in an unattended setup!

first of all, thanks for this guide, but will this in any way cause stability problems? because i figure that MS must have had a reason not to allow the installation on w2k3 server...

using this method: http://flyakite.msfnhosting.com/ it is possible to have many boot/install options for one or multiple os'. after following this guide you will have 3 different install options for one OS. but its easily possible to add more. now its also possible to use a different winnt.sif for each install option. you can can now call various batch files in the .sif file. each option uses a different winnt.sif file and therefore different batchfiles to install the software you want. thats how i did it, and it works great hth

i dont know if this has been posted yet but i would need this disabled: "Shutdown: Allow system to be shut down without having to log on" it can normally be enabled/disabled within the group policy editor. under "Computer Configuration/windows settings/security settings/local policies/security options" i figured that there has to be a reg key to disable this and i even found one with regmon: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\SeCEdit\Reg Values\MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/System/ShutdownWithoutLogon] "ValueType"=dword:00000004 "DisplayType"=dword:00000000 BUT this one didn't work... any ideas? B)

no it didnt work. i copied the entire i386 folder of the MUI pack in the i368 folder of the XPCD. but after the installation was finished i couldn't choose between the 2 languages. i guess that i have to reference the second language somewhere. its propably just one file i need to edit... anybody?

well, im not a pro in administrating a domain, but *maybe* you need to create a useraccount on your client machine during the installation that has the rights to join clients to a domain?

LOL i guess i should have looked at the content of this CD there are several folders there. one of which is called GER.MUI which propably contains the language i want - and in this folder is another one called "i386" now guess what i did.... .... thats exactly what im trying now

Is there any way that i can slipstream, or somehow integrate a Multilingual User Interface Pack into my unattended xpcd?

its here: http://www.dazdezines.com/simplify-it/Guid...nch_toolbar.reg

@alanoll: that was it! this line caused the problem! one backslash was missing. without it the line looked like this: c:\windowsgrass2.jpg after changing it to this: Wallpaper=%systemroot%\grass2.jpg it worked

thank you very much! : but ill go to bed now its almost 3am here

also, you can use "sleep.exe" (available here: http://unattended.msfn.org/xp/Downloads.htm ) instead of the ping command usage: sleep [timetowait] you will have to copy it into your $OEM$\$$\ folder. or into your windows folder for testing purposes

thx for your help so far. is it possible that the winnt.sif file doesnt support these systemvariables? anyway, here are my reg tweaks: Tweaks.txt

alright, i doubleclicked the .theme file, which opened the "display properties" window. after clicking apply. everthing looked the way its supposed to. heres my .theme file: ; Copyright © Microsoft Corp. 1995-2001 [Theme] ; My Computer [CLSID\{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}\DefaultIcon] DefaultValue=%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe,0 ; My Documents [CLSID\{450D8FBA-AD25-11D0-98A8-0800361B1103}\DefaultIcon] DefaultValue=%SystemRoot%\SYSTEM32\mydocs.dll,0 ; My Network Places [CLSID\{208D2C60-3AEA-1069-A2D7-08002B30309D}\DefaultIcon] DefaultValue=%SystemRoot%\SYSTEM32\shell32.dll,17 ; Recycle Bin [CLSID\{645FF040-5081-101B-9F08-00AA002F954E}\DefaultIcon] full=%SystemRoot%\SYSTEM32\shell32.dll,32 empty=%SystemRoot%\SYSTEM32\shell32.dll,31 [Control Panel\Colors] ActiveTitle=51 94 168 Background=0 0 64 Hilight=51 94 168 HilightText=255 255 255 TitleText=255 255 255 Window=255 255 255 WindowText=0 0 0 Scrollbar=212 208 200 InactiveTitle=111 161 217 Menu=255 255 255 WindowFrame=0 0 0 MenuText=0 0 0 ActiveBorder=212 208 200 InactiveBorder=212 208 200 AppWorkspace=128 128 128 ButtonFace=235 233 237 ButtonShadow=167 166 170 GrayText=167 166 170 ButtonText=0 0 0 InactiveTitleText=255 255 255 ButtonHilight=255 255 255 ButtonDkShadow=133 135 140 ButtonLight=220 223 228 InfoText=0 0 0 InfoWindow=255 255 225 GradientActiveTitle=112 177 235 GradientInactiveTitle=131 183 227 ButtonAlternateFace=181 181 181 HotTrackingColor=0 0 128 MenuHilight=51 94 168 MenuBar=235 233 237 [Control Panel\Cursors] Arrow= Help= AppStarting= Wait= NWPen= No= SizeNS= SizeWE= Crosshair= IBeam= SizeNWSE= SizeNESW= SizeAll= UpArrow= DefaultValue=Windows-Standard Link= [Control Panel\Desktop] Wallpaper=%systemroot%grass2.jpg TileWallpaper=0 WallpaperStyle=2 Pattern= ScreenSaveActive=0 [Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics] [Metrics] IconMetrics=76 0 0 0 114 0 0 0 75 0 0 0 1....... NonclientMetrics=84 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 17 0 0 0....... [boot] SCRNSAVE.EXE= [MasterThemeSelector] MTSM=DABJDKT ThemeColorBPP=4 [VisualStyles] Path=%WinDir%resources\Themes\Royale\Royale.msstyles ColorStyle=NormalColor Size=NormalSize the path to the theme file is: c:\windows\resources\themes\ to msstyles file: c:\windows\resources\themes\royale\ in winnt.sif it says: "%Systemroot%\Resources\Themes\Royale.Theme" which is: c:\windows\Resources\Themes\Royale.Theme i cant find anything wrong but maybe i miss something, its 2am where i live

DONE! THX now the only thing left is that my custom theme isn't applied automatically. but i really dont understand why, because it works when i do it manually.

thats exactly what i need too!

first of all thanks for the quick replies. @homiebrah: you could be right. i use bridged networking and the name is already used by another computer on the network! THANKS @johnmallan: the theme seems to be signed. when i doubleclick royale.msstyles it is loaded in "display properties", i can select it, and it works. @mct: the videocard drivers are being copied to the hdd and are referred to in the winnt.sif file under "OemPnPDriversPath". so, this should work right?

Hi everybody! the past few days i have been working on creating my own unattended xpcd, and i ran into a few problems i havent yet been able to solve myself... the first one, that bugs me the most is that this part of my winnt.sif is obviously ignored: [Display] BitsPerPel=32 Xresolution=1024 YResolution=768 [UserData] ComputerName=MYCOMPUTER [Shell] CustomDefaultThemeFile = "%Systemroot%\Resources\Themes\Royale.Theme" after the installation finishes the computername is something totally different (its the companyname with some random numbers and letters appended) the theme i specify isnt applied (though the path is correct) and the resolution stays 640x480. Also Autologon didnt work when a password was set. i solved this by deleting the password. but this is more like a workaround - id really prefer this to work WITH a password. The windows version i use is xp pro with sp2 slipstreamed. and im using vmware to test my image. this is my complete winnt.sif: ;SetupMgrTag [Data] AutoPartition=0 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" [Unattended] WaitForReboot="No" FileSystem=* UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes TargetPath=\WINDOWS UnattendSwitch="yes" DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore OemPnPDriversPath="DRIVERS\006\viasraid;DRIVERS\005\NVIDIA; DRIVERS\007;DRIVERS\008;DRIVERS\009;DRIVERS\010\DVBPCTVSTARS; DRIVERS\010\DVBPCTVSTARS\Install;DRIVERS\011;DRIVERS\011\WIN2K_XP; DRIVERS\011\COMMON" [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=* EncryptedAdminPassword=No AutoLogon=Yes AutoLogonCount=5 OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=110 OemSkipWelcome=1 [UserData] ProductKey=XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX FullName="name" OrgName="business" ComputerName=MYCOMPUTER [Display] BitsPerPel=32 Xresolution=1024 YResolution=768 [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=1 SystemLocale=00000c07 UserLocale=00000c07 InputLocale=0c07:00000407 [Branding] BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes [URL] Home_Page=www.google.com Search_Page=www.google.com [Proxy] Proxy_Enable=0 Use_Same_Proxy=1 [Identification] JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP1 [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=No [NetAdapters] Adapter1=params.Adapter1 [params.Adapter1] INFID=* [NetClients] MS_MSClient=params.MS_MSClient [NetServices] MS_SERVER=params.MS_SERVER MS_PSched=params.MS_PSched [NetProtocols] MS_TCPIP=params.MS_TCPIP [params.MS_TCPIP] DNS=Yes UseDomainNameDevolution=No EnableLMHosts=Yes AdapterSections=params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1 [params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1] SpecificTo=Adapter1 DHCP=Yes WINS=No NetBIOSOptions=0 [GuiRunOnce] %systemdrive%\install\batchfile.cmd [Shell] CustomDefaultThemeFile = "%Systemroot%\Resources\Themes\Royale.Theme" these are the apps im trying to install automatically (everything seems to work fine here) AcrobatReader 6 Ad-Aware Daemon tools 346 Diskeeper 8 dotnet framework DX9b JAVA 1.4.05 NAV2004 (im not registering it during install) Nero 6 Office 2003 pro Opera 7.54 Winrar 3.30 This is my batchfile: ECHO. ECHO VIA Chipset driver installation ECHO please wait... start /wait %systemdrive%\drivers\000\setup.exe -s ECHO. ECHO Winrar installation ECHO please wait... start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Apps\winrar\wrar330d.exe /s ECHO. ECHO Installing Adobe Reader 6 ECHO Please wait... start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Apps\AcroRdr\AdbeRdr60_enu_full.exe -p"-s /v\"/qn\"" ECHO. ECHO Installing .NET Framework v1.1 ECHO Please wait... start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Apps\dotnet\netfx.msi /qb ECHO. ECHO Installing Nero Burning ROM ECHO Please wait... start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Apps\Nero\setup.exe /silent /noreboot /no_ui /sn=XXXXXXXXXX /write_sn ECHO. ECHO Installing Diskeeper 8.0 ECHO Please wait... start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Apps\diskeeper\Setup.exe /s /v/q ECHO. ECHO Installing DirectX 9.0b ECHO Please wait... start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Apps\DX\DX9NTopk.exe ECHO. ECHO Installing Java Runtime Environment 1.4.05 ECHO Please Wait... start /wait %systemdrive%\Install\Apps\JAVA\java.exe /s /v/qn ECHO. ECHO Installing Opera Internet Browser 7.54 ECHO Please Wait... start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Apps\opera\operaib.exe /s ECHO. ECHO Installing Office 2003 Professional ECHO Please wait... start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Apps\Office\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=unattended.MST /qb- ECHO. ECHO Installing DaemonTools 3.46 ECHO Please wait... start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Apps\Daemon346\daemon.msi /qb REBOOT=suppress ECHO. ECHO Installing Winamp 5.03 echo [WinampReg]>%systemroot%\winamp.ini echo IsFirstInst=>>%systemroot%\winamp.ini echo NeedReg=>>%systemroot%\winamp.ini CD %systemdrive%\Install\Winamp\ Start %systemdrive%\Install\Winamp\winamp.js sleep 30 taskkill /F /IM WINAMP.EXE copy %systemdrive%\Install\Winamp\Winamp.ini "%systemdrive%\Program Files\Winamp\" ECHO. ECHO Registering for the Pro Version REG ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Nullsoft\Winamp /v regname /d ab /f REG ADD HKLM\SOFTWARE\Nullsoft\Winamp /v regkey /d xxxxx-xxxxxx-xxxxxx /f ECHO. ECHO Installing Norton Antivirus 2004 ECHO Please wait... ECHO. start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Apps\NAV2004\NAVSetup.exe /O REBOOT=ReallySuppress /QB ECHO Killing the Configuration Wizard of NAV 2004 and its processes taskkill.exe /F /IM cfgwiz.exe taskkill.exe /F /IM ccApp.exe taskkill.exe /F /IM symlcsvc.exe taskkill.exe /F /IM ccSetMgr.exe taskkill.exe /F /IM ccEvtMgr.exe taskkill.exe /F /IM SAVScan.exe taskkill.exe /F /IM navapsvc.exe taskkill.exe /F /IM NPROTECT.EXE ECHO. ECHO Applying Registry Tweaks... call REGEDIT /S %systemdrive%\install\RegTweaks.reg sleep 8 echo Finished! sleep 2 echo Rebooting... sleep 3 %systemdrive%\windows\system32\shutdown.exe -r -f -t 90 -c "Windows XP will now restart in 90 seconds!" exit something else i've noticed is that after the 90 second countdown finishes it takes almost 3 minutes for the pc to eventually restart. but i guess thats normal... ? i really hope that somebody tries to help me, because im pretty much lost here. i dont even know where to start looking for a solution. forum searches didnt turn up anything useful. TIA