I think there's a button you can press at the beginning of setup to enter recovery mode even when you have that switch defined in WINNT.SIF. If it doesn't work, then I'm afraid there isn't a way to make it fully unattended but still be able to run the recovery console. In HFSLIP, if you set INSTALLRC=1 in HFANSWER.INI, you can put the Recovery Console directly on the system when you install the OS. You'd probably be better off asking this in the Unattended forums. For all of your other questions, please read TommyP's response.