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I have attempted to create an unattended installation (with exception for partitioning) for Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 4. It failed.

The GUI part of the install was unattended as expected for a prompt to select a workgroup or domain.

According to Page 42 of Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Guide to Unattended Setup (attached to this post):

[identification]...Specifies the network identification parameters of a computer. If this key is not present, the computer is added to the default workgroup. If the information for this key is not complete, the user is prompted to provide this information.

Given that, I had created an answer file without the [identification] section in the WINNT.SIF file to have setup automatically assign a value for a workgroup. It seems to not have worked.

What went wrong? What should be done to fix the problem?

The following is the contents of my WINNT.SIF answer file:

; Windows 2000 Professional with Service Pack 4
[Data]
MsDosInitiated="0"
UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[Unattended]
UnattendMode=DefaultHide
OemSkipEula=Yes
OemPreinstall=Yes
TargetPath=*

[GuiUnattended]
AdminPassword=*
AutoLogon=Yes
AutoLogonCount=1
OEMSkipRegional=1
TimeZone=020
OemSkipWelcome=1

[UserData]
FullName=" "
ComputerName=*

[RegionalSettings]
LanguageGroup=13,17,3,2,5,16,4,12,15,7,8,10,11,9,6,14,1

[Networking]
InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

;[GuiRunOnce]

[Components]
chat=On
iisdbg=On
indexsrv_system=Off

unattend.zip


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