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Steve, Isn't there an option for denying the reboot, and then just save them all for the final procedure?

Steve and Majoram, Apologies for my lack of response, my setting for email responses was turned off for some reason Steve, At this point I'm not concerned with crash restoration (if that's what you meant by reproducible), I'm just trying to save a weeks worth of time getting everything populated. Afterwards I'll concern myself with disaster recovery. Majoram, Thanks for your thoughts, I think I have a semi-firm handle on the unattended CD creation and will look into the installation to "next available partition" option. Perhaps a way around the "Press any key to boot from CD...." might be is, I'm using a drive controller card where it's BIOS allows for boot drive priority. If I load the unattended XP install on a HD, set it for priority, it should launch it auto, right? For a re-boot, I don't mind having to do it manually, but, if when in Windows you can set the "power options" to hibernate at a particular inactivity time, is there somewhere a similar option somewhere to maybe shutdown/restart?

Nothing? Anybody? Suggestion? Slam?

What if they had been installed without uninstall option? You can get the list of installed hotfixes from the registry HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\ <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Point well taken, hadn't thought of that possibility, a bit more difficult to "cut and paste" out of tho . It'd be a snap to just do a Dos directory listing to a text file of the WINNT folders. Perhaps I can do that while having the registery open just to side-by-side verify.

When looking at the info for creating a slipstreamed CD with hotfixes at unattended.msfn.org/beginner/hotfix/svcpack.htm, it states; "All the hotfixes you have downloaded, renamed and copied to the SVCPACK folder should be added under this section in svcpack.inf in numerical order. When watching the install of hotfixes the last time, I noticed that they did not install in numerical order, is this really necessary? Also, if the newly created slipstreamed CD will be used to install to a computer with XP already on it (SP'd and hotfixed), can't you just get the list of hotfix numbers from the C:\WINNT uninstall folders? Thanks

Hello Everyone, First let me appologize for my noobness , I've never looked into "Unattended Installs" before, but have a project that this would help out immensly, have searched the forums and haven't been able to find answer to my question, so here goes. First, computer drive setup. I have two large HD's (300GB). Each drive will be partitioned identically, I will be creating three small part's (4-6GB, so 6 total), one more slightly larger (6-10GB, so 2 total), the rest one single data partition. Have read the "How To" for creating Slipstreamed Unattended CD's at unattended.msfn.org and think I have a pretty good handle on it, will be starting there and probably adding Bâshrat's driver packs to it. To this I would like to add a group of about 15 apps (I understand this will kick it up to a DVD). I'm hoping to be able to set it up so that it will install XP to all six initial partitions in one operation and selectively install apps to the same partitions (part. 1; apps 1,3,4,5, part.2 apps 1,7,8 part. 3 apps 5,11,12 etc...) Is this possible or am I taking it a little too far? Please understand my programming skills are nill, and my batch writing skills date back to DOS 6.2. Without Unattended Install this will probably take about a week. Slightly off-topic, if anyone's curious (or if it will impact how the install will run), the fourth partition on each drive will host the swapfile's of the three installs on the opposite drive for simultaneous read/write operations (kind of like a poor man's striping). Thanks in advance of any help anyone can give. A#1Noob