Gustaaf Posted January 17, 2005 Share Posted January 17, 2005 Hi,I am having trouble with my XP SP2 EN-US unattend install image. In my Winnt.sifI have Placed OemPreinstall=Yes, but this still does not copy the contents from the CD to the users HD. In Win2K I noticed that this extra file copying happens at the end of the first stage of copying files... With (my) XP this does not happen.Here is a copy of my winnt.sif contents. Can anyone find fault?[Data] AutoPartition= 1 MsDosInitiated= 0 UnattendedInstall= "Yes" AutomaticUpdates = 1[unattended]; Choose UnattendMode, only 1 allowed.; UnattendMode=ProvideDefault UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=YesOemPreinstall=Yes TargetPath=\WINDOWS; OemFilesPath=".\i386\$OEM$" OemPnPDriversPath="INST\PNP\kbd;INST\PNP\mdm;INST\PNP\mse;INST\PNP\nic;INST\PNP\other;INST\PNP\snd;INST\PNP\usb;INST\PNP\vga;" DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore Repartition=Yes ExtendOemPartition=1 FileSystem=ConvertNTFS NtUpgrade=NO Win9xUpgrade=NO CrashDumpSetting = 1 Hibernation = No UnattendSwitch = "Yes" WaitForReboot = "No"; AutoActivate = Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Afterdawn Posted January 17, 2005 Share Posted January 17, 2005 Sometimes it's just better to remake your winnt.sif file. Just use the "setup manager" of the XP SP2 tools. Directly test your file and then you could add other things to it (manually).. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
argon007 Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 Please delete this line:; OemFilesPath=".\i386\$OEM$"in your [unattended] section. Good luck.EDIT:Sorry I did not see the line of OemPreinstall.so I deleted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Incroyable HULK Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 Your $OEM$ folder should be PARALLEL to the i386 folder, not inside. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gustaaf Posted January 18, 2005 Author Share Posted January 18, 2005 Hi all, thanks for the response. I will recreate the winnt.sif file. Response to: ; OemFilesPath=".\i386\$OEM$"all lines beginning with " ; " are official comments and will be ignored by winnt.exe The $OEM$ folder is allowed to be on the root, next to I386 folder. For this you would have to use the OemFilesPath=.\$OEM$\ statement. Official MS documentation alwas states that the $OEM$ should reside by default below the .\i386 folder. - However, i will try this option too for testing and will gladly inform you (apraise you) if it does work. Thanx. B) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buletov Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 simply put $OEM$ on the root of your CD and no entries about it's location is required in winnt.sifnote that in $OEM$ you need to have folder $1, which content is copied to the first hardrive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gustaaf Posted January 18, 2005 Author Share Posted January 18, 2005 Okay, this works. THANX a LOT!The official MS documentation is confussing me a lot now. Does anyone have better independent documentation (PDF/Word)?Gustaaf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alanoll Posted January 18, 2005 Share Posted January 18, 2005 unattended.msfn.orgRead that instead. It's easier to understand then Microsoft's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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