Unattended woes

[the_duck]

I setup the unattended and created the necessary files. When the cmd runs it can't locate the files to install. The registry tweaks don't want to cooperate with me either. Thanks in advance! Here is what everything looks like...

winxp cd

XPSP1a_ENG_PRO\I386\$OEM$\$1\Install

batch_file.cmd

CLS

@echo off

TITLE Windows XP Installation - REDW Technologies - Unattended Installation

ECHO.

ECHO Over the next few minutes you will see automated installations

ECHO of various sofware applications and updates. The computer will restart automatically

ECHO once the whole process has finished!

ECHO.

ECHO Installing Office 2003

ECHO Please wait...

start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\OfficeXP\setup.exe TRANSFORMS=Unattended.MST /qb-

ECHO.

ECHO Installing Symantec Antivirus Corporate

ECHO Please wait...

start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\sav\savceclt.exe /qn

ECHO.

ECHO Installing Lavasoft Ad-Aware SE Build 1.4

ECHO Please wait...

start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\AdAware\aawsepersonal1_4.exe /s

ECHO.

ECHO Installing Adobe Reader 6

ECHO Please wait...

start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\Acrobat\AdbeRdr60_enu_full.exe /s /v"/qn"

ECHO.

ECHO Installing WinZip

ECHO Please wait...

start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\Winzip\wrar320.exe \s

ECHO.

ECHO Installing Google Toolbar

ECHO Please wait...

start /wait %systemdrive%\install\Applications\Google\GoogleToolbarInstaller.exe /q /d

ECHO.

ECHO Restarting the PC in 90 seconds...

shutdown.exe -r -f -t 90 -c "Windows XP will now restart in 90 seconds, this will give enough time for the shortcuts to update and for the shell to fully load before its ready to restart!"

RegTweaks.reg

;REDW Start Menu

[Hkey_LocalMachine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]

"Common Start Menu"="\\titus\ntapps\REDW Start Menu"

;REDW Start Menu

[Hkey_LocalMachine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders]

"Common Start Menu"="\\titus\ntapps\REDW Start Menu"

;Disables Windows Tour bubble popup

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Applets\Tour]

"RunCount"=dword:00000000

;Disable the Desktop Cleanup Wizard

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Desktop\CleanupWiz]

"NoRun"=dword:00000001

winnt.sif

;SetupMgrTag

[Data]

AutoPartition=1

MsDosInitiated="0"

UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[unattended]

UnattendMode=FullUnattended

OemSkipEula=Yes

OemPreinstall=Yes

TargetPath=\WINDOWS

WaitForReboot ="No"

KeyboardLayout="US"

AutoActivate=Yes

[GuiUnattended]

AdminPassword="xxxxx"

EncryptedAdminPassword=NO

TimeZone=010

OemSkipWelcome=1

[userData]

Repartition=Yes

ProductKey=xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx

FullName="Technology"

OrgName="REDW LLC"

ComputerName="Tech_Dev"

[Display]

BitsPerPel=16

Xresolution=800

YResolution=600

Home_Page=xxxx

[TapiLocation]

CountryCode=1

Dialing=Tone

AreaCode=505

LongDistanceAccess="9"

[identification]

JoinDomain=xxxxx

DomainAdmin=Administrator

DomainAdminPassword=xxxxx

[Networking]

InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

[Components]

msmsgs=off

[GuiRunOnce]

%systemdrive%\install\batch_file.cmd

%systemdrive%\install\RegTweaks.reg

[NetAdapters]

Adapter1=params.Adapter1

[params.Adapter1]

INFID=*

[NetClients]

MS_MSClient=params.MS_MSClient

[NetServices]

MS_SERVER=params.MS_SERVER

[NetProtocols]

MS_TCPIP=params.MS_TCPIP

[params.MS_TCPIP]

DNS=Yes

UseDomainNameDevolution=No

EnableLMHosts=Yes

AdapterSections=params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1

[params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1]

SpecificTo=Adapter1

DHCP=Yes

WINS=No

NetBIOSOptions=0

[branding]

BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes

[Proxy]

Proxy_Enable=0

Use_Same_Proxy=0

batch_file.cmd

[Jazkal]

Put the $oem$ directory in the root of the cd.

[the_duck]

s***e. TY very much.

[Jazkal]

np, and good luck.

[the_duck]

any tips on the registry entries? this is all new to me as far as unattended installs go. I'm trying to save the firm some money, and free myself up for other things.

[Jazkal]

any tips on the registry entries?  this is all new to me as far as unattended installs go.  I'm trying to save the firm some money, and free myself up for other things.

On the registry entries, no, no tips. But there are lots of threads discussing what reg tweaks others use.

On saving the Firm money, if you have more than 20-30 workstations (actually, any number), then I would suggest you look into some kind of imaging solution. There is RIS, Ghost, etc.. When used with sysprep, you can have a single image that can deploy to multiple systems. It's not for everybody, but it saves ton's of time in deployment to multiple systems.

Just as an example, here at my work, I designed the system we use. It can do as many as 16 computers at a time (only limited to the number of available ports), and only takes 16 mins til they are all ready to distrubute.

[lpl]

do you have the words "Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00" at the beginning of the reg file?

RegTweaks.reg

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 

;REDW Start Menu
[Hkey_LocalMachine\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders]
"Common Start Menu"="\\titus\ntapps\REDW Start Menu"

[the_duck]

That's a negative. However I do now. Do you see anything else that would cause a problem? I still get the regional setting steps in the setup of xp. I have the keyboard layout set ot "US".

[the_duck]

Very nice. Imaging isn't something that we have looked into here. I use images my house for the three workstations and server that I have setup. I like them...

[dlevens]

Jazkal,

Curious how you worked out the driver and HAL issues for your one image? I was able to solve the different HAL issues but am having a nightmare of a time trying to get all the drivers to isntall without bumping into each other. I first tried organizing the drivers by type like sound, video, network but too many problems. So am trying by hardware type but thats gonna make my oempnpdriverspath very long.

We have a ton of ibm laptops and desktops and gateway machines. Also we want to use one driver package that will work with all hardware and both xp and 2k.

Dennis

[Jazkal]

Having one driver path for XP and 2k is gonna be rough. The drivers will cause problems with each other. I would keep them seperated.

I have two OS's I support; Win2k Servers, and Win2k3 Servers.

My Driver path looks like the following:

DRV\1\1;DRV\1\2;DRV\1\3;DRV\1\6;DRV\1\7;DRV\1\8;DRV\2\1;DRV\2\2;DRV\2\3;

DRV\2\4\1;DRV\2\4\2;DRV\2\5\1;DRV\2\5\2;DRV\2\5\3;DRV\2\6\1;DRV\2\6\2;

DRV\3\1;DRV\3\2\1;DRV\3\2\2;DRV\3\2\3;DRV\3\2\4;DRV\3\3;DRV\3\4\1;DRV\3\4\2;

DRV\3\4\3;DRV\3\5\1;DRV\3\5\2;DRV\3\5\3;DRV\3\6;DRV\3\7;DRV\3\8;DRV\4\1

All one long line, just broken up here for readability.

DRV is in the root of C:\

I use empty text files to inform me what the different folders are: ie.

DRV\

1 (folders)

2

3

4

1_LAPTOP (txt files)

2_Desktop

3_Other

4_Tablet

[dlevens]

Interesting. I am starting to see some issues, not many with 2k combined with xp. Mainly the wireless drivers are not liking each other.

Also curious if you rip out all your hardware on your master box before running sysprep?

I currently deploy using the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) PC which works on all hardware. Then on uni systems for xp I just rollback and reboot and same for mutli hal systems but after rolling to uni it auto detects to multi. Seems to work great for hal issues.

If I understand your driver layout you dump all drivers for all hardware into the same folder? so all windows 2k drivers for desktops go in same folder? No problems with video or network drivers bumping into each other?

Dennis