richsaunders Posted July 22, 2004 Share Posted July 22, 2004 Hi AllI have been creating unattended installs for four different sites of computers that hold different printers and company information and slightly different clients.So I have four winnt.sif filesDoes anybody know method when booting from CD to select the right site that i want to deploy. This would save me carrying 4 different cd's or updating four different cd's.Menu ShowingSite 1Site 2Site 3Site 4Once selected uses the correct wint.sif file for the unsttened installation.Any help would be great.Rich Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raja Posted August 8, 2004 Share Posted August 8, 2004 Add your Site Names in Config.sys and on selecting any of the option it will be saved in %Config% variable and can be used then in Autoexec.bat to edit the contents of Winnt.sif. There are various utilities out on the web which can serach and replace the text in a file. OR alternatively you may create winnt.sif file on the fly based on the option selected. You will need four batch files (one for each site) which should be almost the same as your four Winnt.sif files but with following addition.For each line in winnt.sif add Echo command before it and then pipe the Echoed line to a new Winnt.sif. For example:Echo First line of your existing Winnt.sif>>Winnt.sifEcho Second line of your existing Winnt.sif>>Winnt.sifEcho Third line of your existing Winnt.sif>>Winnt.sif.....so onSave them as .bat files (one for each site) and call this batch file from autoexec.bat to create Winnt.sif on fly. Must enter the correct path for creating the Winnt.sif file when piping the echo command. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
big_gie Posted August 8, 2004 Share Posted August 8, 2004 I have 4 winnt.sif file to (winn1.sif, winn2.sif...)Here's a guide for doing itI'm using CDShell for a bootmenu, heres a screenshot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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