Hmzaniac

sadly enough, it doesn't work.. and ofcourse the /debug parameter is only valid for winnt32.exe ... bloody idiots. I've just rewritten my entire winnt.sif, and going to try again.. i'll report back to you

Cool, thanks, i'll try that out when i have the time (in 1 hour or so) @Peachy: OemPreinstall only decides if you install from distribution folders or directly from CD. Anyway, i tried both. Still thanks for the help

yeah.. productKey/productID are slightly confusing. according to MS's ref.chm both are correct, and i tried both.. same error. The Key is a Volume License Key, and it works when doing a normal install, so that should be no problem..

* Tiny Kick * I tried copying the winnt.sif to a local partition, both the one used to install windows on and a clean one, neither worked. Also tried using UNC patchs instead of drive letters, to no avail.. Anyone who can help me out before i have to enter the key on each and every computer?

heh No... i checked it.. the answer file also works allright, up and until when the GUI part of the installer checks the EULA.

whoopsie... thanks

Morning everyone. I have a problem with my fresh XP Unattended install... it works fine till the GUI Portion of the install, then it goes berserk and starts asking me for my EULA, Identification, ProductKey, etc. I've already found a few topics here which seem to adress this issue, but none of them actually work for my install. Some details first: XP install is done through floppy boot, starting winnt.exe on a network share with the correct parameters. %1 is the computer name which is given on the command line. X:\os\XPSP1A\I386\WINNT.exe /s:X:\os\XPSP1A\I386 /unattend:X:\unattend\COHO\winnt.sif /udf:%1,X:\unattend\COHO\Winnt.udb then, here's my answer file. [Data] AutoPartition=0 MsDosInitiated="1" UnattendedInstall="Yes" [Unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=No Repartition=No WaitForReboot="No" TargetPath=\WINDOWS FileSystem = ConvertNTFS DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore UnattendSwitch="Yes" KeyboardLayout = "US-international" NTUpgrade=No Filesystem=ConvertNTFS [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword="VerySecret" EncryptedAdminPassword=NO AutoLogon=Yes AutoLogonCount=1 OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=110 OemSkipWelcome=1 [UserData] ProductKey=X FullName="VSL Catena" OrgName="Rijks Universiteit Leiden" ComputerName=* [Display] BitsPerPel=16 Xresolution=1024 YResolution=768 Vrefresh=72 [TapiLocation] CountryCode=31 Dialing=Tone AreaCode=071 [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=1 Language=00000413 [SetupMgr] ComputerName0=COHO1 ComputerName1=COHO2 ComputerName2=COHO3 ComputerName3=COHO4 ComputerName4=COHO5 ComputerName5=COHO6 ComputerName6=COHO7 ComputerName7=COHO8 [Branding] BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes [URL] Home_Page=http://www.vslcatena.nl ; Help_Page=http://www.vslcatena.nl/firsttimeuser/ Search_Page=http://www.google.com AutoConfig = 0 [Proxy] Proxy_Enable=0 Use_Same_Proxy=1 [GuiRunOnce] Command0="format D: /FS:NTFS /X" Command1="msiexec /qn /faums /i \\dataserver\install\software\Packages\Firefox.msi" Command2="msiexec /qn /faums /i \\dataserver\install\software\Packages\Acroread.msi" Command3="msiexec /qn /faums /i \\dataserver\install\software\Packages\IZArc.msi" Command4="msiexec /qn /faums /i \\dataserver\install\software\Packages\macromedia.msi" Command5="msiexec /qn /faums /i \\dataserver\install\software\Packages\trillian.msi" Command6="msiexec /qn /faums /i \\dataserver\install\software\Packages\winamp.msi" Command7="msiexec /qn /faums /i \\dataserver\install\software\Packages\Filezilla.msi" Command8="msiexec /qn /faums /i \\dataserver\install\software\Packages\irfanview.msi" Command9="msiexec /qn /faums /i \\dataserver\install\software\Packages\Java-JRE.msi" Command10="\\dataserver\software\Packages\MPSetupXP.exe /Q" Command11="msiexec /qn /faums /i \\dataserver\install\software\Packages\SSHClient.msi" Command12="msiexec /qn /faums /i \\dataserver\install\software\Packages\UT.msi" Command13="msiexec /qn /faums /i \\dataserver\install\software\Packages\wwp.msi" Command13="msiexec /qn /faums /i \\dataserver\install\software\Packages\wwp.msi" Command14="\\dataserver\install\software\Packages\OfficeXP\setuppls.exe /qn" Command15="\\dataserver\install\software\Packages\LangPackNL\Setup.exe /qn" Command16="regedit /s \\dataserver\install\software\Packages\policy-coho.reg" [Identification] JoinDomain=VSLCATENA DomainAdmin=Administrator DomainAdminPassword=VerySecret [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes [FavoritesEx] Title1="Catena Webmail.url" URL1="https://webmail.vslcatena.nl" Title2="VSL Catena" URL2="http://www.vslcatena.nl" [Compontents] accessopt=Off cdplayer=Off chat=Off deskpaper=Off dialer=Off fax=off hypertrm=Off msnexplr=Off media_clips=Off netoc=Off Spider=On mousepoint=Off rec=Off msmsgs=Off [Shell] DefaultThemesOff = Yes DefaultStartPanelOff = Yes and finally, the UDB file [UniqueIds] COHO1=UserData COHO2=UserData COHO3=UserData COHO4=UserData COHO5=UserData COHO6=UserData COHO7=UserData COHO8=UserData [COHO1:UserData] ComputerName=COHO1 [COHO2:UserData] ComputerName=COHO2 [COHO3:UserData] ComputerName=COHO3 [COHO4:UserData] ComputerName=COHO4 [COHO5:UserData] ComputerName=COHO5 [COHO6:UserData] ComputerName=COHO6 [COHO7:UserData] ComputerName=COHO7 [COHO8:UserData] ComputerName=COHO8 I've been pulling out quite some hairs for the last few hours... could anyone help me out with this one?