N-Lite Snafu for me

[Bill s.]

I have made a spindle of coasters trying to get an unattended install made, I am using an XP corporate licensing cd. I slipstreamed SP2 and I have tried it without. I have tried it 6 ways from Sunday and I always get this message.

Please insert the Disk labled: Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 into drive A:

My choices are retry - enter or F3 to exit. I put in the original disk at one point just to se what would happen and it started installing no problem but it was not unattended. I tried doing this by just adding the winnt.sif file but I can't have any luck. Looks like it is back to ghost for me which really sucks because I am setting these up in a school and have 300 different brands of PC's Is there a product that you can buy that will do this? I am ready to pay someone for this to be made for me just about. E-mailing the unattended.txt file is easier than pulling out what hair I don't have.

PLEASE HELP ME,

Bill

[Kelsenellenelvian]

You need the 3 IDENT files at the root of your disk!

WIN51IP

WIN51IP.SP2

WIN51

Also you need to look into vmware or virtual pc and stop polluting the planet with all those wasted disks, hell even a cd\rw would be better...

Also according to nLites Eula WHICH you agreed to when you dl'ed and installed the software nLite is not for use in any buisness corporate enviroment.

[Bill s.]

Yeah I know I am trying to learn how to install VM-Ware on Suse 10.2 KDE also. This isn't for a Corporation it is a public school. 501 c3 Corp sure but I didn't really read the EULA in depth. I will try adding those files to the image and see what that does. I think it still has somthing to do with using the licensing disk because I tried it with a different disk and it went great, only problem is the volume license key won't work. At best I would still have to go in and modify the key after every install and call Microsoft everytime it doesn't verify the installation ID and then I get stuck doing a manual validation with someone in India.

[Legolash2o]

if its more than one computer then i set up one computer perfectly and use acronis true image and works great and its fast, if ur using volume licensing then im guessing you dont have to put a serial code in when you do a normal everyday install, if so make sure the serialcode part on the unattended page is empty, in other words just dont put ur serial code in with nlite and leave it blank try that.

about the please insert disk problem, its happened to me b4, just gonna try recreate the problem so i can tell u how to fix it

if you open the winnt.sif file with notepad in the I386 folder can you list everything under [Data] and [unattended] section please, when it happened to me the problem was in there, dont worry these part of the winnt.sif file displays no personal data

Mines is

[Data]

AutomaticUpdates="Yes"

Autopartition=0

MsDosInitiated=0

UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[unattended]

UnattendMode=DefaultHide

UnattendSwitch="No"

OemPreinstall="Yes"

OemSkipEula="Yes"

FileSystem=*

WaitForReboot="No"

NoWaitAfterTextMode=1

NoWaitAfterGUIMode=1

DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore

NonDriverSigningPolicy=Ignore

Hibernation="No"

that works fine from cd, compare them with yours if there the same

Edited August 1, 2007 by legolash2o

[Ponch]

if ur using volume licensing then im guessing you dont have to put a serial code in when you do a normal everyday install, if so make sure the serialcode part on the unattended page is empty, in other words just dont put ur serial code in with nlite and leave it blank

If it was that simple to check a "VLK" box in nLite and get an activated XP, ...

It's the "K" in VLK that sets it, you do have to enter the key.