gunsmokingman Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 than if your installing from dos it winnt.exedont forget the smart drivewhy would you install from dosNtfs cannot be read by Dos unless there some kind of3rd party software that can. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcL Posted February 3, 2005 Author Share Posted February 3, 2005 Bilou_Gateux: That did not work.. It caused the files in $OEM$ to not even be copied to the C Drive.gunsmokingman: Yes, I am using smartdrive, and for my testing I have been using FAT, not NTFS.Further testing shows: If I use winnt32.exe to kick off the install, it WORKS... But, does not work when using winnt.exe from DOS.It is as if the files in the root of $OEM$ are not copied by the DOS portion of the install (before the first reboot).. Maybe I need to modify DOSNET.INF? Or copy the files myself before starting winnt.exe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilou_Gateux Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 Forget to mention my destination drive already partitionned and formated and my $oem$ folder already copied to %systemdrive% before i launch WINNT.EXE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunsmokingman Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 $oem$ should not get copystuff inside of the $oem$ folder shouldexampleXPCD\$OEM$\$1\Drivers\002_graphicsafter copy to Hard drive YOURHD:\Drivers\002_graphicsXPCD\$OEM$\$1\Drivers\004_soundafter copy to Hard drive YOURHD:\Drivers\004_soundThese Folder Do Not Get Copy But The Content Do Get Copy During The Install.XPCD\$OEM$\XPCD\$OEM$\$1XPCD\$OEM$\$$XPCD\$OEM$\$DocsXPCD\$OEM$\$Progs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcL Posted February 3, 2005 Author Share Posted February 3, 2005 XPCD\OEM$\ does not seem to copy to anywhere on C: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunsmokingman Posted February 3, 2005 Share Posted February 3, 2005 XPCD= CDROM:\That Because I Do Not No What Your Computer Set Up IsAfter The Copy The Location Should Some Thing Like ThisLocation=Hard Drive Or Partition LetterLocation:\DriverLocation:\InstallLocation:\Documents and SettingsLocation:\Program FilesLocation:\WindowsWhy Dont You Just Make A CD To Boot From Far Easier And FasterTo Install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcL Posted February 4, 2005 Author Share Posted February 4, 2005 I understad what it is supposed to do, it is just not doing it!Burning CD's takes time, and installing of CD is slower than HD. This should be a valid way of doing unattended install. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MHz Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 \xpcd\i386\winnt.exe /u:\xpcd\i386\unattend.txt /s:\xpcd\i386From 1st post, what does the /u switch do?I look in winnt32 help, it does not exist? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dj-Throll Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 Hello.Where do you have your files placed.Do you have then directy under $OEM$ folder, or have you moved them ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilou_Gateux Posted February 4, 2005 Share Posted February 4, 2005 Assuming your destination HDD has already a FAT partition, why don't you first copy your $OEM$ dir to the root of the HDD partition and then launch the install with WINNT.EXE with a batch file.I'm using this method to install W2K from WinPE with a modified batch file and launching WINNT32.EXESource Code (original from BartPE modified to my needs):u32.cmdTake care this sample code works only from WinPE (using diskpart.exe)The command i use is U32 -f U:\XPCD\I386 C:I only use the second option -f, the code isn't clean as i haven't removed unneeded original lines for installing BartPE as primary OS.I haven't used this method a long time ago, thanks to my RIS Server.it's just a suggestion to help you doing the same from DOS with a batch file.This link can help you to build your tree for UA install from a distribution share (local HDD or network share)Installing Windows XP Professional and Hotfixes in Unattended Mode Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcL Posted February 4, 2005 Author Share Posted February 4, 2005 At this point, I broke something because the files in $OEM$\$1 and $OEM$\$$ dont copy anymore!I had this problem before: HEREBut, moving the $OEM$ folder under i386 fixed the problem. I think I have changed everything back to the way it was before I tried to add the cmdlines.txt feature, but still nothing is copied.After the first reboot, I see the $OEM$ folder under $WIN_NT$.~ls... but it gets lost somewhere along the way. Maybe I will take the advice of seeing it it works from CD.. if it does, I will copy all of the $OEM$ stuff with a BAT file... Not as clean as I would like, but I am running out of options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarcL Posted February 4, 2005 Author Share Posted February 4, 2005 Ah! I just looked back at the entire thread and recall that I added "$OEM$" to the [OptionalSrcDirs] of DOSNET.INF in an effort to get the cmdlines.txt to copy. Just removed it, and testing it again now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Professor Frink Posted February 8, 2005 Share Posted February 8, 2005 Do you have the following lines in your unattended.txt? It will vary depending on the path and the name of the shared directory:[SetupMgr] DistFolder=c:\winxp\I386 DistShare=winxp$In my example, I have a folder on the server's C: drive called "winxp", and it is being shared as "winxp$"Also, just to be sure -- is regtwks.reg sitting in the root $OEM$ folder, in the same place as cmdlines.txt? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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