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Kelder

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  1. If you boot from the windows install cd, setup will only look for winnt.sif The winnt.bat isn't needed for cd install. You can use it to start setup (with extra parameters) when you start from a DOS or win98 bootdisk or a (DOS) network boot disk. Even then, you can just as well type the complete command in the DOS prompt. The problem with setup from win98/DOS bootdisk is that you cannot install to NTFS partitions...
  2. I'm still using network for app installs, so didn't need your program, but I do like the idea, and might even need it later if I'm making a networkless install for other people in my organisation. But since I was daydreaming anyway, I just considered that it might be useful if this tool returns different errorlevels according to what happened. Mostly if user pressed Esc, so it's easier to know if the correct CD is now in the drive or not.
  3. I have also searched for some way to do that, but the options aren't ideal anyway... -> Use a DOS (or Linux or whatever) bootdisk with a (batch) script to ask and write the computer name, user name and serial to your a:\winnt.sif file. Then reboot and start from the winXP cd. A simple way would be to make a a:\winnt.txt with empty [userData] section at the end of the file, the copy it to a:\winnt.sif, and echo ComputerName="Computer1" >>a:\winnt.sif and similar lines for FullName, OrgName and ProductKey -> boot using BartPE cd and edit winnt.sif and start installer from there. Haven't gotten it to work, so no more info on this... -> Make a default winnt.sif with random computer name and change it at T-12 or first boot. This can be done either using GuiRunOnceEx or the GuiRunOnce entry in winnt.sif. There are tools for changing computername, registeredowner, registeredorganisation and the serial number. Changing this one won't work at T-12 apparently, so run it at first logon or so. This option can then use anything to get the computername from: MAC address, user input, IP address, hardware numbers, ...
  4. Those are really contradicting, but my guess is you'll need to use %cdrom%\XPCD\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\7.0\acroread7sl.exe in your WPI script If it's really C:\XPCD\Software then just type that. This is probably only the case if you have it on the cd in the folder \$OEM$\$1\XPCD\Software, which I doubt since you want to run the installers from CD.
  5. I am trying to make an unattended cd, but since I need a different winnt.sif for each install (different key/user name/computer name) I am for the moment stuck using a floppy disk during install. Now, since that floppy is only accessed once (at "Press F6 to install drivers") I guess setup copies that file to hard disk somewhere. Does anyone know if it is copied completely to hard disk, and where? And if so, when is it deleted? I am thinking of putting in some stuff of my own in the winnt.sif file under a different [section], so I only need to edit one file for each install. It would include office key, (network) location of application install files, ... Has anyone tried this already with success? Thanks for your time!
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