Unattended Windows XP Lan Boot Disks

[yourtech]

Anyone having problems with LAN boot disks for installing unattended XP?

Post your problems/fixes/bootdisks here

[yourtech]

Here's one for example:

I've tried a few already and they all seem to have memory issues

needless to say it prevents the install from being started (or completed).

Here are a few boot disks i've tested one of which worked (install was successfull) but even that boot disk is unreliable (no longer works for me regardless of how many times i've reformatted/remade it and even edited it)

Here are some of the bootdisks i've tried:

Symantec Ghost v8 Drive Mapping & LAN boot disks:

(not enough mem to run setup properly)

Teledata Consulting Inc:

http://tdonline.com/utilities.htm

(worked once, but no longer works properly for some reason)

see: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=18255&st=30

Universal TCP-IP Network Bootdisk for M$ Networks:

http://members.iinet.net.au/~bdriver/bootd...nload.htm#build

(won't even boot - "system disk error")

(theres some info about making your own cdrom boot disks there also)

Note: I have (and actually working on another) dual boot (XP1st/2K2nd) boot system with a System Commander MBR installed but it made no difference on the attempt that worked. (Not sure if it's making any difference now but i'm using it to hide the 2K partition from XP so that the drive letters and programs partitions work out properly).

I realize this is a slightly more complicated setup (but it's worth the grief)

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Edited April 24, 2004 by yourtech

[WwTIPPYwW]

http://www.bootdisk.com

They have lots.

[yourtech]

problem solved with teledata consulting boot disk

two programs will fail due to memory

tinyrfc

ntmtsr (or something like that)

when you get to the command prompt

type the name of each program that failed (one at a time) and hit enter

this will reload the programs believe it or not

then type smartdrv.exe

(you may or may not want to format your C: now)

and then:

net use <DriveLetter>:<space>\\Server\sharefolder

login with l/p

then

<DriveLetter><enter>

unattend.bat

and your all set

[kerseyr]

I know this is an old topic.

I have a network bootdisk (Bart!).

On a remote share I have unattended share I386 folder with unattended.bat in containing.

Z:\unatte~1\I386\winnt /s:%SetupFiles% /unattend:%AnswerFile% /t:D:\temp

When I run unattended.bat all I get is

"Setup is out of memory and cannot continue"

Why?

[Professor Frink]

Is it possible that you're having problems because your folder and files are more than 8 characters? After all, when the XP install starts, you are in DOS mode.

Here's my setup. First of all, at the end of my initial network floppy boot process, I map a drive to the installation point via the bootdisk's autoexec.bat. I go to the mapped drive, then I use the "change directory" command to send me to the i386 folder. In my example, the shared folder "winxp$" is right at the root of the server's C: drive:

net use X: \\server\winxp$ /persistent:no /yes
X:
cd i386

In the i386 folder I have both "unattend.bat" and "unattend.txt". The txt file needs no explanation, of course. The unattend.bat contains the following:

x:\i386\winnt.exe /s:x:\i386 /u:x:\i386\unattend.txt

So when the floppy process is done and I'm sitting in the i386 folder, I just launch unattend.bat.

Sorry if I'm repeating stuff you already know. But maybe this will help.