Unattended Installation

[scottew]

I just created a CD to perform an unattended installation of WinXP Pro, however, the unattended part did not work. I had to manually everything.

I followed the instructions from here perfectly and even went back to double check everything. The winnt.sif file is located in the I386 folder of the CD as it should be with all the answers that I wanted.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Scott

Here is a copy of the answer file.....

;SetupMgrTag

[Data]

AutoPartition=1

MsDosInitiated="0"

UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[unattended]

UnattendMode=FullUnattended

OemSkipEula=Yes

OemPreinstall=No

TargetPath=\WINDOWS

[GuiUnattended]

AdminPassword="xxxxx"

EncryptedAdminPassword=NO

OEMSkipRegional=1

TimeZone=35

OemSkipWelcome=1

[userData]

ProductKey=xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx

FullName="user"

OrgName="company"

ComputerName=*

[identification]

JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP

[Networking]

InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

[tguy]

Try renaming the winnt.sif to WINNT.SIF or copy the file to a floppy disk, as Microsoft recommends and then run the unattended install.

Good luck.

[bauzer71487]

Add the code into the Unattended portion

UnattendSwitch="yes"

[MCT]

make sure the file is named winnt.sif & not winnt.sif.txt

[zaqqaz]

to make sure you have right file name go to any folder

click tools/folder options/view

uncheck "hide extension for know file types"

then look at your winnt.sif file and make sure there is no .txt in it

if there is delete the .txt

replace the check mark in folder options

[Wicket20519]

Try changing OemPreinstall=No to OemPreinstall=Yes

[scottew]

Thank you for all the suggestions. My problem was that I forgotten rename the unattended.sif to WINNT.SIF. Now I have everything working great.

[enuffsaid]

Good on you, bro!

Next time please use the Unattended forum for related problems, rather than the Windows XP forum.