RudeMood12 Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 I am having an issue with my unattended installs of WinXP - I am using the unattend.bat and .txt file to do unattended upgrades to our test computers here. However, after performing the upgrade, I have noticed that it is leaving the previous OS (win2k) intact. It moves the Win2k files to c:\WINNT from c:\Windows and installs the WinXP files to C:\Windows. This also causes the machine to dual boot, giving the user the option of booting into either OS. This is definitely NOT what I want to happen. Why isnt the upgrade path removing/simply upgrading the Win2k install? Is there a setting I am forgetting? Or is this the normal behavior of the unattended install?I know I can use a GUIRUNONCE command to get rid of the directory, as well as the entry in the boot.ini file, but id rather not have to do that, as it seems there is some missing step here. Any info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanoll Posted June 23, 2004 Share Posted June 23, 2004 i believe there is an option in your Winnt.sif that determines upgrade......let me go look, and I'll check backsearch for NTUpgrade in the ref.chm file. It might pertain even though it says it's for .NET. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RudeMood12 Posted June 24, 2004 Author Share Posted June 24, 2004 well, ive figured out that it is doing clean installs instead of upgrades. i realized this when upgrading a machine that had office on it, and when i tried to use office (the shortcuts werent even in the programs menu) it screamed "error" at me. so, why isnt it realizing I want to upgrade? unattended installs are one of the only ways to do upgrades anyways.alanoll, is a winnt.sif file used/needed when doing an unattended install through unattend.bat? i didnt see that anywhere in my resource kit. thanks for checking though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RudeMood12 Posted June 24, 2004 Author Share Posted June 24, 2004 ok, well im confused...shouldnt have anything to do with the winnt.sif file as im not installing from a cd. im installing from a distro point.i did notice there is an winntupgrade switch for the unattend.txt file. HOWEVER, it says that if you are installing files from the \$oem$\ folder (which I am, as we have a bunch of PnP drivers in there) that you do not need the winntupgrade switch in there. but obviously it hasnt been upgrading before. so which one is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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