manishgambhir

HI All, All these things work if i use AIK's boot.wim, but the dont work with Boot.wim taken from windows server 2008's DVD. i wanted to use boot.wim from windows server 2008's dvd because of better drivers support.

Startnet.cmd is a failover in the search path of files that tell WinPE what to do when it boots. The first item it looks for is winpeshl.ini. If there is any data in that file, it won't bother looking for startnet.cmd. Let me give it a shot quickly and update you back here. as far as i remember, i didnt touch winpeshl.ini and technically it should come to startnet.cmd. i checked it doesnt have winpeshl.ini, do you want me to create it and leave it blank ?

Startnet.cmd is a failover in the search path of files that tell WinPE what to do when it boots. The first item it looks for is winpeshl.ini. If there is any data in that file, it won't bother looking for startnet.cmd. Let me give it a shot quickly and update you back here. as far as i remember, i didnt touch winpeshl.ini and technically it should come to startnet.cmd.

Only by using a custom shell and playing some tricks, like having the file originally named something ambiguous in the sources folder, then copy it to the Ramdisk and rename it to unattend.xml... then call Setup.exe with the /unattend switch. Hi Tripredacus/All before i could finalize my autounattend.xml i realized that i missed to ask server name and Ip from user. For which i'm using startnet.cmd. but looks like its not even reaching my startnet.cmd. explaning the scenario here. i have taken boot.wim from a winodws 2008 R2 Sp1 DVD. This boot.wim has two images in it. Index 1. Microsoft Windows PE (x64) ->( mounted the image and saved file in x:\windows\system32) Index 2. Microsoft windows Setup (x64)-> ( mounted the image and saved file in x:\windows\system32) i have added startnet.cmd in both the wims but its still not reaching any of them. when i run commad prompt during the install (by pressing shift + f10) and i browse to X:\Windows\system32, i see my startnet.cmd. but for some reason it is not being touched. any idea ??? Thanks in advance.

Voila!! Its working now. Thanks you for your support and pointing out in right direction.

Thanks icemanND. Thank you again for deleting the xml file, the key i used was from MS site for KMS enabled activation. i am going to try this and will post back in 20 minutes.

Great, its working for you. i'm still stuck and my autounattend.xml attached doesnt let me autologon. can you/anybody help or share a working xml file for autologon

Thanks Mandrake, i was able to run the DVD unattended. Is there any way to hide my unattend so the users dont play with it ?

Let me give it a shot, i was trying to add my xml files to wim files.

Hi There, I have been able to make a full unattend.xml for Server 2008 R2 that is working as i need if i use it on a seprate UFD. can anybody help me on how to add unattend.xml/autounattend.xml to DVD to make it standalone DVD unattended installation ??? Thanks In Advance.