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JackMacWin

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  1. Ok, it worked! It took an insane amount of time because the write speed of the drive is really slow. The reason why I'm putting this VM on a flash drive is because I want to be able to play games or do other work on ANY PC, so I can just insert the flash drive and start working or playing games I installed. To save space, I decided to use XP. (1.5GB of free space is required vs. 20GB on 7 [don't quote me on that]) Well, now it is working well, and this post can be closed. Been waiting for 10 minutes to get past this screen... P.S. I started the install around 4 PM yesterday, it finished around 12 AM
  2. The CD I made the ISO from was slipstreamed with SP2, so it may have been misnamed when making the slipstreamed CD. I wrote it wrong in the main post, it is really VX2PVOL_EN.iso, and that's what I used in the command prompt. I read Microsoft Support's official article on making an unattend install, which used a floppy instead of the CD, so that was the only way I knew. I'll try making an ISO with the files. I tried SysPrep just to see if it would work, but it did not. In QEMU, you can feed any image in via the command-line. Since the IMG was not saving correctly (and giving errors in both QEMU and Explorer), I used an ISO. I use QEMU because I need a free and fully portable VM, as the VM is going on a USB 3 flash drive. Yes, I do mean this "Unattend Install Group"... EDIT: I can't edit the ISO because PowerISO has a 300MB limit for saving and editing files unregistered, and it costs too much for me right now. I'll look for other programs (maybe ImgBurn?)
  3. If this helps: 1. I am running QEMU by running: qemu-system-i386 -cdrom VX2PVOL_EN.iso -fda unattended.iso harddisk.vhd -boot d 2. In unattended.iso, I have unattended.txt, unattended.bat, winnt.sif (same as unattended.txt), and sysprep.inf. 3. I tried renaming everything in the floppy to different names, and it still crashes. 4. I am using an ISO for the unattend floppy, does that make a difference? I don't know the format of the ISO. I'm using an ISO because of some problem with using an IMG. 5. Mounting the ISO and using the virtual drive does not work either. (inside unattend.iso)
  4. Hello, I have just joined the unattend install group because I wanted to be able to quickly install Windows to a VM without having to stand there waiting. I made an unattend answer file with the setup utility included on the XP disc. I put the answer file on a virtual floppy disk, and started the QEMU VM with the floppy disk and CD-ROM in. It boots to CD, and says the usual "Setup is inspecting your hardware...", but then the screen goes to black. It stayed like this for over 6 hours without changing, and the drive light was not on. Is this normal? Jack
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