Activation and XP Unattended

[saimen]

Hi folks

I'm making an auto-install cd for windows xp. I want to enter the serial number and hostname manually for each installation. (that's why I choose UnattendedMode=DefaultHide).

But although I set UnattendedSwitch="yes", it displays the "activation" and "add users" in the setup.

Here's a part from my winnt.sif:

...
[Unattended]
    UnattendMode=DefaultHide
    OemSkipEula=Yes
    OemPreinstall=Yes
    TargetPath=\WINDOWS
    FileSystem=*
    UnattendedSwitch="yes"
    WaitForReboot="No"
    KeyboardLayout="Deutsch (Schweiz)"
...

Is there any possibility, to

1) skip the activation dialog in the setup (so I can activate it later with the "key" in the taskbar)?

2) skip the add user dialog in the setup and add (if necessary) the users later?

thank you for your inspirations

saimen

PS: Despite of those two small "problems", everything else works wonderful.

[nuhi]

Here is the way to disable OOBE startup by gosh

LINK

Just don't use that batch to remove it...you'll need it later to activate, only hack syssetup.dll

[GreenMachine]

Someone else as lacksidazical as myself! It was months before I figured that out, and in the end decided I would live with it. The error is so silly ... change UnattendedSwitch to UnattendSwitch!

[saimen]

Hello

Thank you for the great help.

Really: UnattendedSwitch was wrong spelled. Thank you for the hint. I correctet it to UnattendSwitch and tried again but it didn't work. I guess it's because i use UnattendMode=DefaultHide and not the really unattended mode. so it seems to be ignored...

then i tried the version of gosh to disable oobe. and it worked fine!

thank you both - great help.

happy week,

saimen