[Why No Reboot?]

Rancor - Are you perhaps removing the directory that the .cmd file is launched from?

I had the same thing and finally figured it out. I was trying to clean up the install by removing my install directory.

[Win 2003 Unattended Install]

I'm sorry if this is the wrong place, I'm posting here since the W2K3 section mentions the similarities to XP.

Thanks to many of the tips posted here, I have my unattened XP disk working great.

Now I need to do the same for W2K3 Server Standard. The source CD is from MSDN as is the Product Key.

Installing using the CD and Product Key works fine.

When I try an unattended install, Setup thinks that the install is an Upgrade and wants a Windows 3.51, NT 4.0 or W2K server disk in the cd to verify that the upgrade qualifies.

I ran setupmgr to create a new winnt.sif and made sure there were no winnt.si_ files anywhere.

Any thoughts.

Thanks

Here is my winnt.sif:

;SetupMgrTag
[Unattended]
    Unattendmode=FullUnattended
    OemPreinstall=Yes
    TargetPath=\WINDOWS
    Filesystem=LeaveAlone
    NoWaitAfterGUIMode=1
    DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
    Repartition=No
    OemSkipEula=Yes
    OemPnPDriversPath="DRIVERS\AUD;DRIVERS\MDM;DRIVERS\NET1;DRIVERS\NET2;"
    UnattendSwitch = Yes
    AutoActivate = No
    
[Data]
    UnattendedInstall="Yes"
    MSDosInitiated="0"
    AutoPartition=1

[GuiUnattended]
    AdminPassword="admpass"
    EncryptedAdminPassword=No
    OEMSkipRegional=1
    AutoLogon=Yes
    AutoLogonCount=1
    OemSkipWelcome=1
    TimeZone="035"

[RegionalSettings]
    LanguageGroup=1
    Language=00000409

[UserData]
    FullName=
    OrgName=
    ComputerName=ITSetup
    ProductKey=[** MSDN Key **]

[Branding]
    BrandIEUsingUnattended = Yes
    
[URL]
    Home_Page=http://

[Networking]
    InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

[Identification]
    JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP

[Display]
    BitsPerPel=16
    Xresolution=1024
    YResolution=768
    Vrefresh=70

[LicenseFilePrintData]
    AutoMode=PerSeat

[Shell]
    DefaultStartPanelOff = Yes
    DefaultThemesOff = Yes

[GuiRunOnce]
    Command0=%systemdrive%\install\main_run.cmd

[Certain Reg Tweaks Not Working]

Only difference I see is that Marztabator's working fix ends in 2 double quotes "" and 996's is missing those.

See if thats it.

[My Custom Cd Image Tool]

My version of UltraIso is 6.5.

I will definently be more aware of it now. Thanks AaronXP.

[My Custom Cd Image Tool]

Seek an ye shall find...

I think I found what I was looking for regarding the troubles with UltraIso.

AaronXP said:

In the next update I won't be providing empty ISOs any longer, nor will I suggest to use WinISO or UltraISO due to the way it badly handles ISO Images.

Because when you edit an ISO to remove a file and add a new one, the file itself is never actually removed, only the markers to it. This often bloats up the ISO image more when it's not its true size. There is also the problem where the ISO may reference to an old file rather than the new file when doing file replacements in WinISO/UltraISO (which has yet to happen to me, but it could at some point).

I tested this out by opening one of my iso build images and deleteing all the files. Did a save and had an empty iso that was 400 MB. Did a save as and it shrunk to 64 kb.

So the fix for the bloat should be to save as. As far as referencing incorrect files, I havent seen that yet.

[My Custom Cd Image Tool]

With what I've heard about WinISO/UltraISO lately, I would recommend you don't use it anymore

Ack - I just bought UltraIso. Seems to work fine.

What might be the trouble?

[Unattened Xp Cd Supper Custom]

sorry for the hijack...still trying to make sense of all the various methods and permutations.

I've been looking at, 6 - here. It seems that in various posts this method is covered. Other posts are creating folders and replacing older versions, copying cat files, making cab files, etc.

Does the srvpack.inf method work with out all the file replacement?

thanks

ITR

[Buring $OEM$ file with Roxio 6]

Is the CDIMAGE.EXE that you use the one that requires cygwin?

[Help please with winzip]

Late to the show as always....

Here's how I install winzip.

copy the contents of a working install and put them in a folder:

$OEM$\$1\Program Files\WinZip

This gets copied over with the other folders\files in $OEM$

Then I run this from apps.cmd

start /wait %systemdrive%\Progra~1\winzip\winzip32.exe /noqp /autoinstall
DEL "%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Desktop\WinZip.lnk""

Works for me