Unattended XP Installation from WDS Server 2008

[d0zer44]

Hello lovely Community,

i am new here, because i hope that you can help me.

I´m 19 Years old and in education in a germany company. I have to set up a wds server 2008.

I´m from germany and because of that my english is not the best

i hope you understand all what you need te help me

now to my problem...

i have set up a windows deployment server on servre 2008.

i want to deploy vista and xp images to client computers. and of course this should be unattended. time is money

i deploy the vista image unattended with die unattended.xml and this works exactly how i want it.

but my problem lies on windows xp.

is use the sysprep.inf which lies in the $oem$ folder an my wds server. but the sysprep.inf can not all commands that the unattendes.txt can.

for example add users unattended or the choice for the classic look/menu.

it looks like : C:\remoteinstall\images\xp\"Imagename"\$oem$\$1\sysprep\sysprep.inf

how can i manage/configure an unattended installation of windows xp whre i have all commands?

i want to have a file like the unattended.txt, which lies on the wds server and manage the unattended installation of windows xp.

how can i do this?

i hope you can help and understand my english and what i mean

regards

d0zer44

[Tripredacus]

Are you not using WSIM to make your XP install?

I'm guessing that you are doing a network boot to the bootmgr off the server and want the XP image to appear there is that correct? Or does it and it is not installing?

There is a thread about using WinPE to install XP unattended, so you may be able to boot into that first.

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=88270