RIS + unattend CD

[Risla]

Hi,

I have wasted a whole week trying to get RIPrep to work with no comfortable knowledge that it is going to work on a range of systems easily.

So...i stumbled across this site and i now have the Unattend option!

My query is this for anyone.....can i deploy the image via RIS?

The way i see it i do my big DVD, add the new image to RIS by inserting my CD rom and i should have a image on RIS which it thinks is FLAT not SYSPREP, it installs XP.....then runs the Batch file using [guirunonce] and its complete?

My image only requires Outlook/AV/Winzip/Adobe PDF/and SP2....but will this be the same size as a RIPrep'd image?

Also when the image installs and runs GUIRUNONCE will the application deployment be visable to the user?

any help is greatly appreciated.

[mmarable]

I'm not sure but I don't think that it will work. When RIS creates the flat image the tool pulls out the OS install files and ignores pretty much everything else.

Come to think of it, I'm about positive that it won't work because I remember trying it with a Dell OEM CD a couple of years ago and all it would do is Windows and nothing else.

I will tell you that most of the info here will also relate to RIS images as well.

[un4given1]

RIPrep is not the way to go. RIPrep images are hardware specific. I would recommend you build your image as you would an unattended CD. I used to have one RIS image that worked on 20+ different PCs, including laptops. Do a couple searches for old posts by me. I have posted quite a bit about RIS in the past. Let me know if I can help you any.