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^bump^ anyone have any pointers? Perhaps some way to do an unattended install of the chipset drivers after windows is set up (ie from runonceex)? Or am I just doomed?

I'm trying to create a cd to run on Dell GX200s, 240s, and 260s. My first attempt, using the Intel chipset drivers (directly from them) got windows fully installed on the GX260, but the NIC died. Someone on the Dell forums suggested using their chipset drivers, but this causes the installation, after going through DOS mode and then through hardware detection, to reboot, then boot again, and reboot, over and over again. I've used both nlite 0.99.7 and 0.99.8, both give this same issue, and running the installation on a GX200 or through VirtualPC works completely fine. Does anyone else deal with these machines that might have some pointers?

Hey, I'm looking to reinstall windows on my computer, but I'm dual-booting ubuntu (a debian based linux distro). I'd like to stop NTLDR from loading into the mbr so I don't have to reinstall grub afterwards, but I'm not sure how to do this, and my laptop doesn't have a "boot sector virus protection" option in the bios. Any suggestions? Thanks

hmm, haven't had a chance to try cartoonite's idea (testing my Ua cd now), but if anyone's feeling rich, you might wanna give this a shot. warning tho, it's $30!

try also adding in FileSystem = ConvertNTFS that along with the two commands you initially stated works fine for me

Felix is right, I was just about to post the same thing. This error causes the RunOnceEx to not run at all (you can see my thread about it in Unattended Windows). Also, a few other minor things: whenever you click the file menu, it asks to save...is this supposed to be like this? It's very annoying. Also, could you possibly modify the numbering so it's like this (or with even a larger gap, I use 5): don't anyone b*tch about quote/code, I did that intentionally!This will make it much easier to go back in and manually edit afterwards, if needed.

wow thanks for the help. BTW, the SET PP=%CDROM%\ is added by the runonceex maker, it's completely unused, I got rid of it once, but I must've forgotten to save it, it's been completely removed now. That runonceex.cmd creator has some serious issues, that malformed %cdrom% detection error, the %pp% thing (which causes the cdrom to be called twice, it adds %PP% before the path), and any time you access the "file" menu, it asks you to save... Anyways, I think runonceex is complex enough for me, asta, my cd right now is at 696mb, I wanna get it running and leave it alone also, I have no custom themes, and those VCE programs take ~5min apiece to extract on the test machine I've got, so there shouldn't be any problems...I hope. edit: and it works perfectly, thanks again guys!

webbie is down, geocities doesn't really like you using them just for file hosting...

I can't figure this out. I've just converted my unattended CD from start.cmd to runonceex.cmd, but for some reason, either the runonceex.cmd never runs, or else it closes itself right from the beginning (or else something else is wrong). Can anyone help me with this? I'm also somewhat lazy, so my runonceex also contains some of the commands that I should have put in a seperate batch, and they get executed before adding reg keys, could that be the problem? And finally, I used the runonceex generator program, and then modified it from there to add a couple more programs. winnt.sif in :\i386\ [Data] MsDosInitiated = 0 UnattendedInstall = Yes [Unattended] UnattendMode = FullUnattended UnattendSwitch = Yes FileSystem = ConvertNTFS Repartition = Yes WaitForReboot = No NoWaitAfterTextMode = 1 NoWaitAfterGUIMode = 1 OemPreinstall = Yes OemSkipEula = Yes TargetPath = "Windows" DriverSigningPolicy = Ignore NonDriverSigningPolicy = Ignore Hibernation = No [SystemFileProtection] SFCQuota = 0 [Display] Xresolution = 1024 Yresolution = 768 BitsPerPel = 32 Vrefresh = 75 [GuiUnattended] AutoLogon = Yes AdminPassword = removed TimeZone = 35 OEMSkipRegional = 1 OemSkipWelcome = 1 [UserData] ProductKey = "mwahahaha" ComputerName = "removed" FullName = "removed" OrgName = "Somewhere..." [RegionalSettings] Language = 0409 [Identification] DomainAdmin = Administrator DomainAdminPassword = "removed" JoinDomain = "removed" cmdlines.txt in :\$OEM$\ cmdow @ /HID @Echo Off FOR %%i IN (D: E: F: G: H: I: J: K: L: M: N: O: P: Q: R: S: T: U: V: W: X: Y: Z:) DO IF EXIST %%i:\win51ip.SP2 SET CDROM=%%i: SET PP=%cdrom%\ rem This will correct the video resolution, if not already set to 1024*768*32, 75Hz 1365VidChng.exe 1024x768x32@75 -q rem This will map the networked drives net use n: \\server\apps /persistent: yes net use o: \\server\net /persistent: yes net use u: \\server\logon /persistent: yes rem This section enables the "Quick Lauch" toolbar reg load HKU\TempUser "C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\ntuser.dat" reg add HKU\Tempuser\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Streams\Desktop /V TaskbarWinXP /t REG_BINARY /d 0c000000080000000200000000000000b0e22bd86457d011a9 6e00c04fd705a222001c000a0100001a000000010000000000 000000000000000000004c0000000114020000000000c00000 00000000468300000010000000a0b0485e898dbd0100d89ee4 2a8dbd010045fe5e898dbd0100000000000000000100000000 0000000000000000000000130114001f0fe04fd020ea3a6910 a2d808002b30309d190023443a5c0000000000000000000000 000000000000cd971500310000000000af245cb9108057696e 6e7400002000310000000000af24a3b9100050726f66696c65 730050524f46494c4553001900310000000000c12408921000 69653530302e30303000002800310000000000c12408921000 4170706c69636174696f6e2044617461004150504c49437e31 002100310000000000c5229d9110004d6963726f736f667400 4d4943524f537e31002900310000000000d32232a61000496e 7465726e6574204578706c6f72657200494e5445524e7e3100 2400310000000000db2276ba1000517569636b204c61756e63 6800515549434b4c7e310000008d0000001c00000001000000 1c000000360000000df0adba8c0000001a00000003000000e7 182d231000000049453530305f58314300433a5c57494e4e54 5c50726f66696c65735c49453530302e3030305c4170706c69 636174696f6e20446174615c4d6963726f736f66745c496e74 65726e6574204578706c6f7265725c517569636b204c61756e 6368000010000000050000a01a000000a30000000000000008 00000002000000cc00000001000000030000004a0000000100 000040003200e6010000c424159f20004c61756e636820496e 7465726e6574204578706c6f7265722042726f777365722e6c 6e6b004c41554e43487e322e4c4e4b00000040000000020000 003600320048020000c424159f20004c61756e6368204f7574 6c6f6f6b20457870726573732e6c6e6b004c41554e43487e31 2e4c4e4b00000036000000000000002c00320051000000ec22 4639200053686f77204465736b746f702e7363660053484f57 44457e312e53434600000052000000e0000000000000001600 00000000000000000000160000000000000001000000010000 00aa4f2868486ad0118c7800c04fd918b437020000e0000000 00000000160000000000000000000000160000000000000001 000000 /f reg unload HKU\TempUser /> rem This section adds software to be installed at the next boot, and then reboots SET KEY=HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnceEx REG ADD %KEY% /V TITLE /D "Installing programs..." /f REG ADD %KEY%\000 /VE /D "HP LaserJet 5" /f REG ADD %KEY%\000 /V 1 /D "%cdrom%\Setup\hplj5.cmd" /f REG ADD %KEY%\005 /VE /D "Mozilla Firefox 1.0" /f REG ADD %KEY%\005 /V 1 /D "%cdrom%\Setup\Apps\Firefox.exe" /f REG ADD %KEY%\010 /VE /D "VCE General Hospital" /f REG ADD %KEY%\010 /V 1 /D "%cdrom%\Setup\Apps\VCE_GH.exe" /f REG ADD %KEY%\015 /VE /D "VCE Medical-Surgical" /f REG ADD %KEY%\015 /V 1 /D "%cdrom%\Setup\Apps\VCE_MSTI.exe" /f REG ADD %KEY%\020 /VE /D "MS Office 2003 (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint)" /f REG ADD %KEY%\020 /V 1 /D "%cdrom%\Setup\Apps\Office.exe" /f REG ADD %KEY%\025 /VE /D "MS Frontpage 2003" /f REG ADD %KEY%\025 /V 1 /D "%cdrom%\Setup\Apps\Frontpage.exe" /f REG ADD %KEY%\026 /VE /D "Ad-Aware Pro" /f REG ADD %KEY%\026 /V 1 /D "%cdrom%\%cdrom%\Setup\Apps\Aawaawsepro.exe /S" /f REG ADD %KEY%\026 /V 2 /D "taskkill /IM Adaware.exe /F" /f REG ADD %KEY%\026 /V 3 /D "taskkill /IM hh.exe /F" /f REG ADD %KEY%\026 /V 4 /D "taskkill /IM Ad-Aware.exe /F" /f REG ADD %KEY%\030 /VE /D "Spybot S&D" /f REG ADD %KEY%\030 /V 1 /D "%cdrom%\Setup\Apps\spybot\spybotsd13.exe /silent" /f REG ADD %KEY%\035 /VE /D "SpyBot S&D Updates" /f REG ADD %KEY%\035 /V 1 /D "%cdrom%\Setup\Apps\spybot\spyupd.exe" /f REG ADD %KEY%\040 /VE /D "AOL Instant Messenger" /f REG ADD %KEY%\040 /V 1 /D "%cdrom%\Setup\Apps\AIMInstall.exe" /f REG ADD %KEY%\045 /VE /D "McAfee AntiVirus 7" /f REG ADD %KEY%\045 /V 1 /D "%cdrom%\Setup\Apps\McAfee\McAfee.exe" /f REG ADD %KEY%\050 /VE /D "McAfee Updates (12/29/04)" /f REG ADD %KEY%\050 /V 1 /D "%cdrom%\Setup\Apps\McAfee\sdat4417.exe /silent" /f REG ADD %KEY%\055 /VE /D "FirstClass 8.0 SP1" /f REG ADD %KEY%\055 /V 1 /D "%cdrom%\Setup\Apps\FirstClass.exe" /f REG ADD %KEY%\060 /VE /D "QuickTime Alternative 1.39" /f REG ADD %KEY%\060 /V 1 /D "%cdrom%\Setup\Apps\quicktimealt139.exe /verysilent /sp-" /f REG ADD %KEY%\065 /VE /D "Real Alternative 1.29" /f REG ADD %KEY%\065 /V 1 /D "%cdrom%\Setup\Apps\realalt129.exe /verysilent /sp-" /f REG ADD %KEY%\070 /VE /D "WinRAR 3.42" /f REG ADD %KEY%\070 /V 1 /D "%cdrom%\Setup\Apps\wrar342.exe /s" /f REG ADD %KEY%\000 /VE /D "Acrobat Reader 6.0" /f REG ADD %KEY%\000 /V 1 /D "%cdrom%\Setup\Apps\AdbeRdr60_enu_full.exe -p"-s /v\"/qn\""" /f REG ADD %KEY%\080 /VE /D "Java Runtime 5.0.1" /f REG ADD %KEY%\080 /V 1 /D "%cdrom%\Setup\Apps\jre501.exe" /f REG ADD %KEY%\085 /VE /D "Macromedia Shockwave/Flash Player 10.0" /f REG ADD %KEY%\085 /V 1 /D "%cdrom%\Setup\Apps\mm_fl_sw_installer.exe /s" /f REG ADD %KEY%\090 /VE /D "Apply Registry Tweaks" /f REG ADD %KEY%\090 /V 1 /D "REGEDIT /S %cdrom%\Setup\RegTweaks.reg" /f REG ADD %KEY%\095 /VE /D "Reboot the computer to finish installation" RED ADD %KEY%\095 /V 1 /D "shutdown.exe -r -f -t 60 -c "Windows XP will now restart in 1 minute..." 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First question: how do I move the location of the my documents folder? Also, I've heard people talking about exporting the registry to locate changes, how can you compare the two (without manually sifting through the entire thing)? edit: found the answer to my runonceex question Thanks for the help, almost ready to give these suckers a go!

never mind, found it on google, it's net use q: \\server\folder /persistent: yes and yes, I got my /'s backwards, I've been working in linux too much lately (there it's smb://server/folder)

okay, say I've got a network share, like //server/folder, and I want to mount it on the Q:. Is it possible to do this during an unattended installation (and how)? Thanks for all the help so far guys, this thing is just about done, once I get this cleaned up and the latest updates slipstreamed in (**** 2nd tuesday), it should be

hey guys, this version is down, and from the looks of things, it's the one I want (more extensions then I want, but it's got the ones I need and I don't want to manually add them). Can someone send me a copy (use my msn addy) or provide another download? Sorry if this is already somewhere, but it's 42 pages, and the print thing is no help, totoymola must be there a million times.

umm.... http://unattended.msfn.org/global/oemfolders.htm yes, the answer file goes in the i386 folder

this actually makes a heck of a lot more sense to me, copying everything to the system drive before extracting it just adds one more (very long) step to the process, I just never knew how to set the cdrom variable. Modifying now!

thanks prathapml, never would have thought of that, but it's exactly the option I was looking for afaik, these do have the correct oembios.bin, but I can't be completely sure until I check. But, since these computers are all exactly identical, if that doesn't work, I think I can use license backups and the multiboot

no, most definately not, and I'm quite insulted by that accusation (and for god's sake, xp pro corp is all over the net, why the heck would I mess around with a dell oem cd?). Our inventory, if you must know, consists of roughly 25 Dell Optiplex GX280s, 30 GX260s, and 40 GX240s (and a few iMacs, but I don't touch those). All of these PCs have their own individual XP product keys. Most of them are in one very big lab that uses the Altiris imaging software, but a few (some 240s, a couple 260s, and maybe 2 280s) are in a much smaller lab that can't access the altiris server, that's why I'm doing this CD in the first place. Since these are public PCs, we reimage them regularly to keep them up to date and remove anything that people might have installed (like wildtangent, etc.). Due to the server problems tho, some of the PCs in the other lab are still using the original OEM installation, and run like crap because they're so clogged up. Also, from my understanding, there should be no issue whatsoever with using the same key on several different PCs, providing that we own enough keys to cover all of them, which we do. Anything else? But thank you for the info anyways, I'll look for other ways through this, I hate the idea of paying for a slightly different version of the same software as we already own, it's like buying a new car just to get a flowmaster exaust, imo

but then why this? Isn't that the same thing, or no? And I am using a Dell OEM version of Pro, prolly should have mentioned that also...

I've been reading about these activation bypass (read: automation) methods, and I'm just wondering a few things. With the OEMBIOS.bin method, will the wizard take note of the system configuration, or will it just ignore it? I'm using XP Pro, and trying to mass-install on 3 different machine types, and it's really pathetic to have to buy corporate for just that reason, when we already own pro.

and who would have thought of the pats as joining the ranks of clubs (or "dynasties") like the bears after the sheer embarressment that they were only a few years before?

and if the hard drive is already bootable, just use the F12 boot menu option that most bios's have...

I'm running an a64 3500+, and I gave the xp 64-bit beta a shot (last version before RC1), and then shot it. Many 32-bit programs don't work (netzero, msvc++, zonealarm, after that I gave up), and it really needs to have some sort of "legacy" 32-bit driver support, I wound up having to dig out my old external serial modem just to find one that windows could support, because there are no 64-bit drivers out except from nvidia. So, I'm now back to 32-bit xp, and very happy, tis much faster than my xp 1800+ :mrgreen: I suppose once it's finally released, I'll probably give it another shot, but even then, I'll be dual-booting until I've made my final choice.

I tried the same thing, and got the same results. seems it's likely disabled until final release.

the problem is, this installs on machines ranging from P3 667s to P4 1.7s, so the time required varies greatly. Does anyone know if WinZip SFX will work any better with this?

No, not exactly. The Office programs I am, but the VCE programs simply need to be extracted to the program files directory, and then the shortcuts are manually installed in the $Docs folder. I have confirmed that the unattended sfx options work fine under windows, but during installation, the computer shuts down before these files can finish extracting.