Unattended "upgrade" Installation

[BlutoniumBoy]

I have searched the forum only to find nothing on this topic. Maybe I didn't look hard enough or further enough back but hopefully some of you can help me out with this.

I was wondering if it is possible, of course it is, to do an unattended install of an "Upgrade" version with out actually having to supply the "Verification CD" when prompted to do so. Is there something I can add to prevent this? I have both the XP Home Upgrade and Full version's of XP Professional SP1/SP2.

I am trying to set up a CD of the Home ver. for a different machine. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please don't tell me to just install Pro... I don't want to do this.

[00buck]

I posted this question when I first joined the forums, tried a few of the suggestions and never found a way around it yet. But it is early in the install when you are prompted to show the cd so it isn't a real big deal.

[jbm]

I was experamenting with this and made a DVD with all the files from

a ME cd and an XP upgrade cd. during the upgrade when it asks for the

verifying cd you have to press enter and it will search the CD for qualifying

files. I also found if I created an empty directory structure of the ME cd

on the unatended cd it worked too. Looking at my CD the only files I left

from the me cd are in the tools directory. But I can't remember why I left

them, may have just over looked them. I also tried it with just the

win9x directory but it wouldn't work. So far it has only worked if the

full directory structure from the ME cd is included. Hope this helps

a little. Also since you still have to press enter it wouldn't be fully unattended.

[BlutoniumBoy]

thanks a bunch! Pressing enter is really not that big o deal. I just dont like the switching of cd's. It gets to be a pain in the arse. Do we know exaclty what file the upgrade is looking for for compatibility?

[jbm]

I don't