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Trying to run an unattended install of XP Pro from a network share

The textmode portion runs fine, but none of the GUI portion is getting pulled (as soon as the GUI comes up I have to enter EULA, Org name, etc.)

What's happening with the unattend.txt? It seems to get lost in the reboot between the text and GUI portions

The share is \\server\winxp in which is the i386 folder, the unattend.bat and the unattend.txt

I had to manually change the setupmgr generated unattend.bat from using winnt32 to winnt - could ths be causing any problems?

The unattend.bat:

@rem SetupMgrTag

@echo off

rem

rem This is a SAMPLE batch script generated by Setup Manager.

rem If this script is moved from the location where it was generated, it may have to be modified.

rem

set AnswerFile=g:\unattend.txt

set SetupFiles=g:\I386

smartdrv

g:\I386\winnt /s:%SetupFiles% /unattend:%AnswerFile%

The unattend.txt:

;SetupMgrTag

[unattended]

UnattendMode=FullUnattended

OemSkipEula=Yes

OemPreinstall=No

TargetPath=\WINDOWS

[GuiUnattended]

AdminPassword=*

EncryptedAdminPassword=NO

OEMSkipRegional=1

TimeZone=4

OemSkipWelcome=1

[userData]

ProductKey=XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX

FullName="XXXXX XXXXX"

OrgName="XXXXX"

ComputerName=XXXXXXXX

[TapiLocation]

CountryCode=1

[RegionalSettings]

LanguageGroup=1

Language=00000409

[identification]

JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP

[Networking]

InstallDefaultComponents=Yes


Posted

I would change it back to this:

set AnswerFile=.\unattend.txt
set SetupFiles=\\server\winxp
smartdrv
\\server\winxp\I386\winnt32 /s:%SetupFiles% /unattend:%AnswerFile%

That's what I use for mine and it installs completely unattended, except that I also renamed my unattend.txt to winnt.sif.

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