turbo76542

This is something I have been playing with since I really didn't want to waste a bunch of DVDs when creating a fully unattended installation of XP with applications. In order to keep from having to make a new CD every time you add a new application to your setup, I recommend the following: 1. Save your applications on a network share in a particular folder 2. Save your programs.cmd (or whatever you call it) to the same network shared folder 3. In your winnt.sif file, in the [GUIRunOnce] section, add the following lines: %systemdrive%\install\drivemap.cmd p:\programs.cmd 4. Create a drivemap.cmd file with the following code net use p: \\Computer\Share (Computer is the name of your other network computer and Share is the location of your programs. Then, save that file in the $OEM$\$1\Install directory on your CD. 5. Make sure that you edit your programs.cmd file so that you are not directing the system to install from the Install folder on the hard drive. Example of code for one of the programs: ECHO. ECHO Installing Office 2003 Professional ECHO Please wait... start /wait p:\Office2003\Office2003\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb- Notice that I am not pointing to the %systemdrive% because these programs are not going to be copied to the install folder. I can easily modify my programs.cmd file and the list of programs to be installed, as well as adding the programs to the network share.