Don't mess with my unattended, just install it!

[Volatus]

Hey,

I'm loving this little tool, it's saving me having to write CD-RWs, and it saves time on installation. But I have a small beef with the program. It's a little too "multifunction"! All I want to do is put the installation files on a USB stick and make Setup run from that without screwing up my C: drive letter. It does this quite well. Except for one thing...

I can't seem to find a way to get it to stop automatically "unattend"ing my installation, by setting the username to "UserXP" and applying a bunch of unwanted (by anyone's standards) tweaks like disabling autorun, and a few others I can't remember (reg files in the $OEM$ folder). It also places "drivers" and "programs" (or something like that) in the root directory and I DON'T WANT THOSE!

I appreciate that I'm finally given the option to change the unattended options, i.e. change "UserXP" to something else, but I would even further appreciate the ability to just let nLite handle those and just have USB-boot make modifications where necessary (keyword: necessary).

I was kinda surprised to not find anyone else complaining about this, so I'm'a just go on about doing my thing. Just wanted to pop that in though. Thanks for this great tool none the less

[wimb]

In the NEW version USB_MultiBoot_10.cmd you are asked in Message of ScreenShot 7 if you want to

Use All Setup Parameters from XPSOURCE ?

In your case using nLite you may wish to answer here Yes.

May be your experience was from previous versions. Then try version 10.

There is also a very handy NEW technique developed and described at Boot Land Forum:

Install XP from USB AFTER Booting with PE from HDD or USB

http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=5306

[Volatus]

Saw that topic (here) before, but can't understand the benefit of it, or how it may work. I most certainly do not want to have to take the 10 minutes to load WinPE before starting Windows setup... I'm not sure how else it works. The topic isn't exactly worded or organized very well (I'd want to know how to do it *after* being introduced to the concept, for example). So I'm rather lost, and I got a bit of a headache trying to read it...

As for USB_Multiboot_10, I was actually using that version, which prompted me to make this topic. If I answer "Yes", I get the values presented in the dialog (which I don't want). If I answer "no", I get to choose the settings (which is better, but I still don't want). I think "cancel" exits the program, which I don't want.

USB_Multiboot_8 actually (somewhat) clearly provides an option for skipping the compulsory unattended options... I already had $OEM$ and winnt.sif files, and it offered to use those instead (of course I do!). That seemed to work, except that I later found that computer doesn't even properly support USB booting. So now it's back to making a CD.

edit: Oh, a question about options from XPSOURCE? I didn't get that one... I always get asked the "do you want to use these unattended options" message instead. Plus, IMO, "XPSOURCE" is somewhat misleading... the folder isn't called "XPSOURCE" so for a while, I was confused as to its meaning. You should say "XP source folder" instead (or maybe just a change of spacing and capitalization, "XP Source") so as to make the dialog more clear

edit edit: And what's screenshot 7?

Edited September 4, 2008 by Volatus

[wimb]

ScreenShots mentioned in my signature

http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...20089&st=11

For the XP Setup User Data dialoque you can Select Cancel for No Changes (you stay in the Program).

To prevent Copy of Unwanted folders Select with C the empty folder XX_CONTENT

Booting with LiveXP PE in the New technique occurs from Harddisk in less than 1 minute

It is quite different from what you think.

Edited September 4, 2008 by wimb

[Volatus]

Wait - it's now possible to boot Windows (PE) directly from drive-media? I thought it was only possible to boot from CD because the USB bus reset while booting...

This is something I'll have to look into!

[ilko_t]

Hey,

I'm loving this little tool, it's saving me having to write CD-RWs, and it saves time on installation. But I have a small beef with the program. It's a little too "multifunction"! All I want to do is put the installation files on a USB stick and make Setup run from that without screwing up my C: drive letter. It does this quite well. Except for one thing...

I can't seem to find a way to get it to stop automatically "unattend"ing my installation, by setting the username to "UserXP" and applying a bunch of unwanted (by anyone's standards) tweaks like disabling autorun, and a few others I can't remember (reg files in the $OEM$ folder). It also places "drivers" and "programs" (or something like that) in the root directory and I DON'T WANT THOSE!

I appreciate that I'm finally given the option to change the unattended options, i.e. change "UserXP" to something else, but I would even further appreciate the ability to just let nLite handle those and just have USB-boot make modifications where necessary (keyword: necessary).

I was kinda surprised to not find anyone else complaining about this, so I'm'a just go on about doing my thing. Just wanted to pop that in though. Thanks for this great tool none the less

Did you miss this topic?

http://www.msfn.org/board/WinSetupFromUSB-...UI-t120444.html

The program has been made exactly with your thoughts in mind.

http://www.msfn.org/board/WinSetupFromUSB-...880#entry780880

For example:

...if in Windows source folder winnt.sif or unattend.txt are found they will be used as answer file. Section UNATTENDED will be temporarily removed, only for the Text part of setup, and before start of GUI mode it will be merged back. PRESETUP.CMD is used for this purpose.

- $OEM$ folders are copied by presetup.cmd