Alternative Boot folders

[drmarvin]

I have followed the instructions on the flyakite website, and all my alternatives boot, but they don't seem to read the winnt.sif files, because nothing is automated, even when I have them set for unattended.

;SetupMgrTag
[Data]
    AutoPartition=0
    MsDosInitiated="0"
    UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[Unattended]
    UnattendMode=FullUnattended
    OemSkipEula=Yes
    OemPreinstall=No
    TargetPath=\WINDOWS
UnattendSwitch="yes"
WaitForReboot="No"
DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore

[GuiUnattended]
    AdminPassword=<encrypted password>
    EncryptedAdminPassword=Yes
    AutoLogon=Yes
    AutoLogonCount=1
    OEMSkipRegional=1
    TimeZone=35
    OemSkipWelcome=1

[UserData]
    ProductID=XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX
    FullName="Andrew"
    OrgName="All in One DVD XP Pro"
    ComputerName=*

[Identification]
    JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP

[Networking]
    InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

[Components]
msmsgs=off
msnexplr=off
zonegames=off
AutoUpdate = off
Dialer = off
Hypertrm = Off

[Shell]
DefaultStartPanelOff = Yes
DefaultThemesOff = Yes

[IEPopupBlocker]
BlockPopups=Yes
FilterLevel=Medium
ShowInformationBar=No

[WindowsFirewall]
Profiles = WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall

[WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall]
Mode = 0

If anything is obvious, please let me know, because my DVD is so close to working.

TIA

[Jito463]

Two things. First, change this:

OemPreinstall=No

to:

OemPreinstall="Yes"

Second, do you have the winnt.sif in your I386 directory, or your boot directory in the root of your drive?

[drmarvin]

Well, it's a multiboot disc, so the guide says to put it in the boot folder for that option. I don't want this one to do an OEM Preinstall, but should I still make that switch "yes" and just not have an $oem dir in parallel?

EG.

root

----pro1

-------no winnt.sif

----pro2

-------winnt.sif with Unattended, but not OEM Pre

----pro3

-------winnt.sif with Unattended and OEM Pre

----hom1

----hom2

----setup

--------xp

-----------pro

--------------i386

-----------home

--------------i386

[Jito463]

Ah, ok. I think I understand. Though you'll probably need to have more directories if you plan on having a preinstall and setup on the same disc. Even if you don't do a preinstall, the $OEM$ directory is parsed. And it must be in the same directory as i386. So you'll need a preinstall directory and non-preinstall directory for each version of Windows (one with and one without a $OEM$ directory). Everything else seems to be in the right place though, so I'm not sure why your winnt.sif isn't being parsed.

[ToBe]

Check that it's not named winnt.sif.txt

[drmarvin]

Just an update. It ended up that the reason it wasn't parsing the winnt.sif was because I forgot to hex edit the SETUPLDR.BIN to point to the new boot folders. Now it seems to be working fine. Thanks for the help though.