How to use WinPe for Network Unattend Install?

[mbouchard]

In one form or another I use the following to reboot PE from both HTA's and VBS'

Mike

Do'Reboot PC.  Close Up to 5 open CMD windows
  Do While Counter < 5
 Counter = Counter + 1
 If Counter = 6 Then
   Check = False
 Exit Do
 End If
 WshShell.AppActivate "cmd"
 WshShell.sendkeys "exit"
 WshShell.sendkeys "~"
   Loop
Loop Until Check = False

[Jotnar]

You could also you pskill or something similar and kill the command window.

Cheers

[likuidkewl]

Another option to this is PEShutdown.exe, use google to find it, then write a script that will call it. It also has a reboot switch to which is useful, for example when I install windows, I do it from a script with the "START /wait" command, then the next line in the batch will not execute until the preceeding line is complete. Just a suggestion.

[genmud]

yea start /wait is the shiz! i love that... i think "start /wait", "if", and "set" are the most usefull commands(imo)

[Metzen]

yea start /wait is the shiz! i love that... i think "start /wait", "if", and "set" are the most usefull commands(imo)

I use an AutoIt Script that terminates all *.cmd windows, this forces a reboot.

[crossgrid]

Hi,

Been following this thread and i have mine reboot but then it goes into windows XP profession Setup window. I thought it should just go through with the setup but its asking me what partition to install and then it errors out with setup was unable to verify drive c:.

Your computer may not have enough memory to examine the drives, or your windows xp cd may contain some corrupted files.

why is this happening?

please help

TIA

[KMFM$]

I am suffering from the same problem as crossgrid stated above. I am assuming that having the partition selected in the text setup is a winnt.sif thing. I am just wondering if the error message is in result of VMWare settings, or if the install is corrupt.

Just for reference

Winnt.sif

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

[Unattended]
    UnattendMode=FullUnattended
    OemSkipEula=Yes
    OemPreinstall=Yes
    TargetPath=\WINDOWS
    UnattendSwitch="Yes"
    WaitForReboot="No"
    FileSystem=*
    OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\L\R\1;Drivers\S\C;Drivers\U\V2_0;Drivers\M\763;Drivers\G\9500"
    DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
    NonDriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
    ProgramFilesDir="D:"
    CommonProgramFilesDir="D:\Common"

[SystemFileProtection]
    SFCQuota = 0

[GuiUnattended]
    AdminPassword="**********"
    EncryptedAdminPassword=NO
    AutoLogon=Yes
    AutoLogonCount=1
    OEMSkipRegional=1
    TimeZone=35
    OemSkipWelcome=1
    ProfilesDir="E:"
    
[UserData]
    ProductID=***************************
    FullName="Samus Aran"
    OrgName="Organization"
    ComputerName=MINERVA

[Display]
    BitsPerPel=32
    Xresolution=1280
    YResolution=1024
    Vrefresh=60
    AutoConfirm=1
    ConfigureAtLogon=1

[Branding]
    BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes

[Proxy]
    Proxy_Enable=0
    Use_Same_Proxy=1

[GuiRunOnce]

[Identification]
    JoinWorkgroup=HIVE001

[Networking]
    InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

TIA

[ribond]

It's prompting for what partition to install to because your Unattend file is telling it to.

Change this:

[Data]
   AutoPartition=0

to this:

[Data]
   AutoPartition=1

And it will stop asking you questions.

Hey Edge -- Why are you manually starting services for Diskpart?

[KMFM$]

D'oh... It's always the small things. Thanks.