scottew Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 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,ScottHere 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tguy Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bauzer71487 Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 Add the code into the Unattended portionUnattendSwitch="yes" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCT Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 make sure the file is named winnt.sif & not winnt.sif.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zaqqaz Posted February 27, 2005 Share Posted February 27, 2005 to make sure you have right file name go to any folderclick 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 itif there is delete the .txtreplace the check mark in folder options Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wicket20519 Posted February 28, 2005 Share Posted February 28, 2005 Try changing OemPreinstall=No to OemPreinstall=Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottew Posted February 28, 2005 Author Share Posted February 28, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enuffsaid Posted March 1, 2005 Share Posted March 1, 2005 Good on you, bro! Next time please use the Unattended forum for related problems, rather than the Windows XP forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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