Unattended Upgrade to Win XP

[cweatherford]

Hey, I'm having a little trouble creating an unattended upgrade from Win 2K to XP (this is really an upgrade not a new installation). I have created a unattended installation which references an unattend text file. That part works great for a fresh install but not for upgrading.

When I am trying to upgrade a workstation I was able to run this command:

\\servername\share\winxp\i386\winnt32.exe /unattend

This starts the unattended upgrade but it stops right away and says that I have to provide a valid product key. How do I provide a key? If I specify an unattend.txt file then it does a fresh install instead of an upgrade.

Has anyone else ever run across anything like this? I should note that after I get the error I have the chance to enter the product key then everything works great without any further user input required.

Well, if anyone can help I would certainly appreciate it.

Thanks,

Chris

[[BM]Crusher]

add your product key to your unattend text file?

[userData]

ProductKey=YOUR-VALID-PRODUCT-KEY

[cweatherford]

Yea, whenever you define a text file on your /unatted switch (i.e. /unattend:\\server\share\winxp\unattend.txt) then it does not perform just an upgrade, it does a parrellel installation of WinXP. I just need to upgrade from W2K to WinXP.

I even tried to create an unattend.txt file with just the Product Key defined and this did not work either.

Has anyone ever been able to do an unattended upgrade?

Chris