I made a Windows 2000 unattended cd and it has sp4 integrated into it.... The install works great, but I have a problem with Internet Explorer.... Here is what happens. When I go and do the critical updates, IE 6.1 is the first thing that installs, after the reboot I get and explorer.exe error and it reboots. Once it reboots, the computer(s) install IE6 and I can do all the other critical updates... If you open up IE and goto "Help" and "About Interner Explorer" it shows the IE 5 logo and gives me an error and I cannot type in text on any searchbar such as google..... Now, I made an unattended Windows 2000 w/sp2 cd and when you do the critical updates, it wants to install IE 6.1 BEFORE sp/4... If I do this method, everything works fine without any errors and it shows the Internet Explorer 6 logo under "About Internet Explorer".

So my question is this, is there a way to create an unattended Windows 200 cd w/sp4 that already has IE 6.1 installed and will not give errors...?

I imagine that I could use a Windows 2000 w/sp4 cd and make it unattended, but I would have to go out and buy it...! lol

Thanks,

Matt

Here is how I do it. I created a custom Win2K CD with SP4 slipstreamed into to the source files.

Using the $OEM$ method discussed at http://unattended.msfn.org I incorporated IE6 SP1. I launch the setup out of my cmdlines.txt file with the following syntax:

"C:\WINAPPS\IE6\IE6SETUP.EXE /Q /R:N"

/Q installs quietly

/R:N suppresses the reboot

This completes before Windows loads the GUI for the first time and has not given me any problems.

Hope this helps.

tguy

I confirm, I do it almost the same way and I get no problems B)

I call a batch file from cmdline.txt so I can use variables like %systemdrive% instead of a fixed drive letter (like C:\ in the previous example)

Good Luck!