jb3rry Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 Is there a preferred or recommended way to set up and unattended XP cd for use with RIS? for example INF vs RunonceEx? My current CD is based off RunOnce.I am also looking at being able to tie in an unattended install of Office from a network drive.Any opinions or recommendations would be appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icarus Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 All our installs are done using a .sif file. We point to all our network software installs through it. We install office from a network drive. We have a corporate copy so no keys are required and we use /qb at the end sor a silent install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pthomas Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 For all of our RIS server installs, I've just stuck to the tried and true RunOnceEx based install. But either way should work fine. RunOnceEx is nice because you don;t need to make any changes. Porting an unattended stand-alone install over to a RIS install is quite easy. Run "risetup", point it to your cd image (your custom made unattended CD) and let it copy files over. *Note* RIS expects some folders to be on the install source its copying from, like the "lang" folder. If you just make sure the folder exists, the copy process will go fine and you can still keep a slimmed down image on the RIS server. Of course, with the SIS service, that keeps copies of files from ever happening...The unattended ofice install shouldn't be bad at all. IT depends slightly on what version of office you are using. See one of the best guides for this here to answer your Office install question:http://unattended.msfn.org/Enjoy,Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pthomas Posted August 30, 2004 Share Posted August 30, 2004 Oh, and the majority of stuff in your winnt.sif file can be copied over into the i386\templates\ristndrd.sif file. Just don;t delete any of the RIS specific stuff. Here's what we use for our ristndrd.sif file:[data] floppyless = "1" msdosinitiated = "1" OriSrc = "\\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%" OriTyp = "4" LocalSourceOnCD = 1 DisableAdminAccountOnDomainJoin = 1 AutomaticUpdates=yes[setupData] OsLoadOptions = "/noguiboot /fastdetect" SetupSourceDevice = "\Device\LanmanRedirector\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%"[unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes TargetPath=WinXP FileSystem=NTFS NtUpgrade=No OverwriteOemFilesOnUpgrade=No OemPreinstall=Yes UnattendSwitch="yes" WaitForReboot="No" DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore nondriversigningpolicy=IgnoreOemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\002_SATA;Drivers\004_NvidiaGART;Drivers\005_NvidiaIDE;Drivers\006_NvidiaSMBus;Drivers\007_NvidiaMemCtl;Drivers\008_NvidiaAudioDrv;Drivers\009_NvidiaAudioUtl;Drivers\010_NvidiaEthernet;Drivers\015_AC97;Drivers\020_RealtekLan;Drivers\030_ATIVideo;Drivers\040_NvidiaVideoDrivers\050_chipsetVia;Drivers\060_chipsetSis;"[userData] ProductID=******************* FullName="*************" OrgName="****************" ComputerName=%MACHINENAME%[GuiUnattended] AdminPassword="**********" EncryptedAdminPassword=NO AutoLogon=Yes AutoLogonCount=2 OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=%TIMEZONE% OemSkipWelcome=1[Display] BitsPerPel = 32 XResolution = 1280 YResolution = 1024 VRefresh = 70[Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yes ProcessPageSections=Yes[NetServices]MS_Server=params.MS_PSched[identification] JoinDomain=%MACHINEDOMAIN% DoOldStyleDomainJoin=Yes[RemoteInstall]Repartition = YesUseWholeDisk = Yes[OSChooser]Description ="WinXP Pro with Service Pack 2 v8.19.2004"Help ="Automatically installs WinXP with Service Pack 2"LaunchFile = "%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%\templates\startrom.com"ImageType =FlatVersion="5.1"[Components] msmsgs=off msnexplr=off freecell=off hearts=off minesweeper=off pinball=off solitaire=off spider=off zonegames=off[TerminalServices] ;added 1-14-2004 AllowConnections=1 ; Enables Remote DesktopAlways useful to have a good working example,Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jb3rry Posted August 30, 2004 Author Share Posted August 30, 2004 Thanks.....I just wanted to make sure there were not any issues running a custom build via RIS. Thanks again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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