[REQUIRED] Automatic CD boot

[Dmike92]

Hi,

First of all, thank you for this wonderful product and all the support you are making about it.

Really.

I have read all FAQ and searched the forum for about 2 hours (~100 topics out of more than 600). Sorry if I missed it. (by the way "CD" is not allowed in searches and should be - as an exception ?)

To make it short :

My Hard disk is good but empty and probably unformated (or badly formated)

My keyboard is curently not usable. This means:

- No acces to BIOS setup to change this (because it requires to press a key)

- Unable to press a key to start installing Windows (Official or nLite'd)

(The keyboard work fine under some Linux graphic OS - Kaella)

Fortunately Boot sequence is CD before HDD.

Now the question:

Is there a way (option, boot file) to create an ISO file that will not require to press a key to allow boot ing from CD ? Did I missed the option ?

I know I will have to be carefull with second reboot.

If it is a matter of just getting a bootfile

My hope is that:

- the mouse will be working

- I will find utilities to acces BIOS setup and enable USB at boot and some other nice feature (touchpad sensivity wich has probably gone far beyond limits).

- If none of above, I hope I will be able to use external USB keyboard and mouse.

Please ignore about clearing CMOS (ACER 5100 laptop)

Many thanks !

WAIT : I JUST FOUND THE OPTION ...

French translation is a bit confusing :

"Enlever le message 'Appuyer sur une touche pour démarrer du CDROM' "

Wich mens (short) "Supress the message 'Press a key..' "

The answer has to be "Désactivé" (Disabled) if we do not want to have to press a key.

I tried and this is as I said. I therefore changed the lang file to have "Afficher le message ..." ("Display the message...")

Edited November 10, 2010 by Dmike92

[Dmike92]

I'm replying to myself rather than continuing editing my first post because the subject has slightly changed.

I have discovered that the option "Autopartition=1" in the winnt.sif (Data section) has to to be done AFTER the final nLite process. Otherwise nLite turns it back to 0. Maybe nLite would provide an option to ask for autopartitionning ?

Next thing is now Autopartition=1, Install process ask me what type of filesystem I want (not fully unattended yet).

I'll search the forum again, I might have missed something... :-)

I used the winnt.sif this way :

[Data]

Autopartition=1

MsDosInitiated=0

UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[unattended]

UnattendMode=FullUnattended

UnattendSwitch="Yes"

FileSystem="ConvertNTFS"

OemPreinstall="Yes"

Other options ...

[Other sections...]

It worked the first time (cold start after inserting the fresh CD) ; then I forgot to take it off for the next reboot and I thought that it would redo the format again but NO: The screen was asking wich partition I would like to use :-(

I tried another cold start : nada.

Finally I took off the CD and the install continued with the pre-installed files from the first part !

Unfortunately I was stopped on the date and time screen (definively not unattended !)

I might again have missed something...

(to be continued)

Despite I have the following:

[GuiUnattended]

AdminPassword=*

TimeZone=105

OEMSkipRegional=1

OemSkipWelcome=1

The date and time screen is still present.

Stuck now !

Any help welcome :-)

Edited November 10, 2010 by Dmike92

[urie]

Hi,

First of all, thank you for this wonderful product and all the support you are making about it.

Really.

I have read all FAQ and searched the forum for about 2 hours (~100 topics out of more than 600). Sorry if I missed it. (by the way "CD" is not allowed in searches and should be - as an exception ?)

To make it short :

My Hard disk is good but empty and probably unformated (or badly formated)

My keyboard is curently not usable. This means:

- No acces to BIOS setup to change this (because it requires to press a key)

- Unable to press a key to start installing Windows (Official or nLite'd)

(The keyboard work fine under some Linux graphic OS - Kaella)

Fortunately Boot sequence is CD before HDD.

Now the question:

Is there a way (option, boot file) to create an ISO file that will not require to press a key to allow boot ing from CD ? Did I missed the option ?

I know I will have to be carefull with second reboot.

If it is a matter of just getting a bootfile

My hope is that:

- the mouse will be working

- I will find utilities to acces BIOS setup and enable USB at boot and some other nice feature (touchpad sensivity wich has probably gone far beyond limits).

- If none of above, I hope I will be able to use external USB keyboard and mouse.

Please ignore about clearing CMOS (ACER 5100 laptop)

Many thanks !

WAIT : I JUST FOUND THE OPTION ...

French translation is a bit confusing :

"Enlever le message 'Appuyer sur une touche pour démarrer du CDROM' "

Wich mens (short) "Supress the message 'Press a key..' "

The answer has to be "Désactivé" (Disabled) if we do not want to have to press a key.

I tried and this is as I said. I therefore changed the lang file to have "Afficher le message ..." ("Display the message...")

If you don't want to see Press any key to boot from CD you need to delete BOOTFIX.BIN from i386 folder .