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thx to u guys am now almost 70% closer to what i want my problem was that the 2 .cmd, and .reg where in the folder called $1. when i moved them to the root of the $oem$ it worked like a charm thx very very very much guys for the help

here is my cmdlines.txt [COMMANDS] "RunOnceEx.cmd" "useraccounts.cmd" "REGEDIT /S hkcu.reg" "REGEDIT /S Install\Soft.reg" sorry, am not an expert

i've moved my cmdlines file to the root of the $OEM$ directory, but it didnt seem to work as i've got an error saying something like the [c:\cmdlines.txt is missing ] i've also removed the ";" from this line [;"%systemdrive%\cmdlines.txt"] now am putting the cmdlines.txt back to the "$1" folder and re-installing will keep u posted, thx

am new to the unattended cds cant make the cmdlines.txt work i have this line in my winnt.sif [GuiRunOnce] ;"%systemdrive%\cmdlines.txt" and i have the file located in > $OEM$\$1\cmdlines.txt so what am doing wrong ??

have solved this problem, there was something wrong with one of the lines in the winnt.sif, found that i was using the deploy tools of sp2 while am trying 2 install sp1, this caused me this problem i think the line that caused the error is this : msmsgs=off since i didnt find any thing about it in the deplying tool help file am still having couple of errors, i will try hunting them down thx guys for trying to help me

same results using the virtual pc :|

Still with the same error, my cmdlines.txt was inside a folder called install, but even when i moved it out to the $OEM$, got the same error msg. I think the problem is that there is a programs somewhere, run in a very early stage

didnt work :| removed the [GuiRunOnce] "%systemdrive%\install\cmdlines.txt" also i doubted that there is a prob in the hotfix, undone all the hot fixes to a status that was working fine, but still stuck here am thankful 4 your help

thx 03

am having probs with my first unattended cd i get this error msg The error msg title says "16bit MS-DOS subsystem" here is my winnt.sif ;SetupMgrTag [Data] AutoPartition=0 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" [Unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes TargetPath=\WINDOWS FileSystem=* DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore OemPnPDriversPath="drivers\000_chipset\VIA;drivers\001_network;drivers\002_graphics\nVidia84.21;drivers\004_sound\Vinyl;drivers\005_monitor;drivers\006\SI3112;drivers\007_mouse;" [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=* EncryptedAdminPassword=NO OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=120 OemSkipWelcome=1 [UserData] ProductKey=********* FullName="Blah" OrgName="" ComputerName=Blah [TapiLocation] CountryCode=20 [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=13,7,1 Language=00000409 [Identification] JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP [Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes [Components] msmsgs=off msnexplr=off pinball=off [GuiRunOnce] "%systemdrive%\install\cmdlines.txt" cmdlines.txt [COMMANDS] "RunOnceEx.cmd" "useraccounts.cmd" "rundll32 advpack.dll,LaunchINFSection nLite.inf,nLiteReg" "REGEDIT /S hkcu.reg" "REGEDIT /S Reg\Soft.reg" RunOnceEx.cmd ECHO. ECHO Applying Registry Tweaks... REGEDIT /S %systemdrive%\Reg\hklm.reg

Thx very much for this great tutorial, it did a great help to me i think there is a small mistake in this tutorial here @ [GuiRunOnce] you saied while here under the "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE (HKLM)" you didnt put the codes between qoutes ECHO. ECHO Applying Registry Tweaks... REGEDIT /S %systemdrive%\install\hklm.reg plz check and let me know thx again