nick_007308

it looks like the website of autoit (www.autoitscript.com) is down right now, but I believe the code for a hotkey to quit a program is this: HotKeySet("{ESC}", "end") Func end() exit 0 EndFunc but I might be wrong about that. the hotkeyset line can be placed on top of the script, and the rest below the Wend line. hope it works pressing esc should result in closing the program

ok, I dont have autoit on the pc I'm working on right now, but I've been working with autoit before. this should work I think while 1 Send("123") sleep(1) wend it does not have a key to end the program yet, if you want to know how to do that, open the help file of autoit, and search for hotkeyset. good luck

it seems to work thanks so much windows is installing right now, it copied all the files without any problem.. now I'll start making a few nice apps to suit my needs for the cd... I already found diskpartitioner (diskpart gui) which is exactly what I need for the partitions, except the layout, so I'll change that. there's a windows setup launcher as well, but I'm gonna write one myself I think again, thanks this helped me a lot

hmm, thanks, that looks nice, and I see you use 2 things I haven't used, which might be the reason for the problem on my pc /s and the bootsect command. since my i386 dir for the windows install is not on the root of the cd, that may be the point. thank you I'll try it when I get home

no luck still the same problem. the setup starts, it says it's copying the files. but the strange thing is, it finishes in a few seconds, 15-20 seconds or so. after that, the setup screen disappears, and the hardisk isn't bootable. rebooting doesn't bring me to the rest of the setup what am I doing wrong thanks a lot for your reply anyways, since you seem to have done this before, you might see the mistake

ok, thanks for the reply the batch file I use to start the setup is like this: set AnswerFile="B:\winnt.sif" set SetupFiles="x:\wxp\I386" x:\wxp\I386\winnt32.exe /s:%SetupFiles% /unattend:%AnswerFile% the cd drive is assigned to the letter X in this case, and B is the ramdisk of bartpe. my winnt.sif is as follows: [Data] AutoPartition="1" MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" [Unattended] UnattendMode=DefaultHide FileSystem=* OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes Repartition=No WaitForReboot="No" UnattendSwitch=Yes [GuiUnattended] OEMSkipRegional=1 OemSkipWelcome=1 AdminPassword=* TimeZone=110 [UserData] FullName="nick" ComputerName="TEST" ProductKey=******-*****-*****-*****-***** [Identification] JoinWorkgroup="test" [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes [RegionalSettings] Language=00000413 but my file is called winnt.sif, instead of unattended.txt, could that be the problem? thanks in advance

hi folks, I'm trying to use bartpe to launch the windows xp pro installation, with an unattended script as well. after booting into the cd, I used diskpart to make one big partition (full size of the harddisk), set it to active, and formatted it to ntfs. when I launch the setup by starting winnt32.exe with the parameters /unattended and /syspart with the settings for me, it starts copying the files, and finishes in a few seconds. the setup closes, and I'm thrown back to the desktop. after a reboot, the harddisk still doesn't contain the files needed to boot from harddisk and continue the setup. the way my cd is set up is like this: [root] i386 folder [by bartpe] wxp folder [which contains the entire content of the xp cd] a few files created by bartpe (win51 or something like that...) I've been searching on the internet for hours, but I still can't find where the problem comes from. anybody who knows what I'm doing wrong? thanks Nick