You know at the very beginning of the installation when all windows files are copied to the hard drive and the install directory is copied to the hard drive also, this is where I would like the second CD to come in. The unattended installation CD that I want to create will be used for more than one machine. Therefore, having an exact path for the CD ROM is out of the question since other machines do not necessarily have the CD ROM as letter D for example. For putting CD 1 back in the CD ROM drive, if it is not necessary then I'll be glad to avoid this. I thought that since CD 2 is asked for early in the installation process then CD 1 would still be needed to continue the XP installation. Thanks