Unattended installation after ghosting

[msly]

Hi All,

I am new to this forum and have already had some success in working with nlite. Here is my questions. I work for a school and have multiple Dell computers. Probably around 5 diffrent hardware types. I have already created a slipstream version of XP using SP1 then another using SP2.

I would like to create a universal ghost image that will work for all my dell computers. Each type would need Chipset,nic,sound and video to work after download the image. Each computer would have the same OS and software.

Any help would be appreciated.

sLY

[Radimus]

you do not want unattended CD (although it is handy)

You want to look into sysprep. See the deploy.chm and ref.chm in the deploy.cab on the XP CD

[msly]

Thanks for the info. The unattended XP Cd comes in handy when creating each image though...

[Radimus]

that is what I'm doing... just so I can update the ghost image identically from the one before.

Unattend install XP and apps and reg keys and etc.

then sysprep and deploy

[msly]

Yea I have been trying to get all Dell drivers to be part of my image so that after I image XP would pick the proper drivers. I have been playing around using some of the guides on this site... but not sure if it is working right. We have to use SP1 only for our image but I want it to work with 5 diffrent computers.

sLY