Windows XP SP3 Sysprep Problem

[netengineers]

First off... Hello everyone

I follow the steps of creating a sysprep.ini file, and copying everything to the %systemroot%/Sysprep directory, and enable mini-setup and click the reseal button.

System shuts off, turns back on, starts the mini-setup process and stops and waits for me to insert the Windows Installation CD or to point it to the location that holds those files. Can anyone tell me what files it needs, or if there is something I'm forgetting to do.

When deploying hundreds of systems I cannot afford to put a CD in each and every one of them.

Not sure if it is related, but I used HSFLIP, nLite, and standard unattended installation methods to install the operating system on the original image.

Please help! And thank you very much.

[IcemanND]

What kind of media did you use to do the initial install? A UA cd, nLite'd CD, etc. Usually when these messages come up they say in them what file(s) is needed, if that is the case some more details may be helpful. The other thing you can do is to copy i386 folder to sysprep\i386 then if sysprep needs a file it can find it there and the folder is removed upon completion of sysprep.

[netengineers]

What kind of media did you use to do the initial install? A UA cd, nLite'd CD, etc. Usually when these messages come up they say in them what file(s) is needed, if that is the case some more details may be helpful. The other thing you can do is to copy i386 folder to sysprep\i386 then if sysprep needs a file it can find it there and the folder is removed upon completion of sysprep.

Yeah I did it with nLite'd CD, saw some other people having issues with same thing so I just did it all from scratch with an OEM CD. That took me around the problem, and from what I read I just need to make a new CD or what not. Thank you very much for the reply.