TnT Posted March 29, 2005 Share Posted March 29, 2005 I have prepared a Windows XP Installation cdrom with SP2 and hotfixes integrated. Now I want to automate some (but not all) of the settings during installation. I'm using this winnt.sif file:;SetupMgrTag[Data] AutoPartition=0 MsDosInitiated=0 UnattendedInstall=Yes[Unattended] UnattendMode=DefaultHide FileSystem=* OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=No[GuiUnattended] OEMSkipRegional=0[UserData] ProductKey=xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx[Components] msmsgs=off msnexplr=off[Shell] DefaultThemesOff=Yes DefaultStartPanelOff=YesBut now I can't customize the regional settings and the network settings during installation. How can I fix that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purewaveform Posted March 29, 2005 Share Posted March 29, 2005 If I understand you question correctly, you can customize your network settings because you have already filled it out partialy in the [userData]?if so you might want to UnattendMode=ProvideDefault to quote deom the Deployment tools user guide.Specifies default answers in the answer file. In this case, Setup displays these default answers to the end user, who can change them if they are not appropriate.Use UnattendMode = ProvideDefault in preinstallation scenarios where the OEM or administrator wants to give the person setting up the computer the option to change the predefined default answers (especially network options).But also if you download the deployment kit, you can then access the help files. To get the deployment kit go to. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...=en&Hash=8KP7FL This should be the direct download link. Good luck. fun learning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TnT Posted March 30, 2005 Author Share Posted March 30, 2005 If I understand you question correctly, you can customize your network settings because you have already filled it out partialy in the [userData]?if so you might want to UnattendMode=ProvideDefault to quote deom the Deployment tools user guide.I want to be able to customize almost all settings during installation (not in the winnt.sif file), except for some obvious settings like accept eula, product key and remove some components. But with the settings in my current winnt.sif file, regional and network settings are skipped during setup. I did choose UnattendMode=DefaultHide, because I wanted to hide the productkey during installation. I'll try ProvideDefault, but I don't expect different results.But also if you download the deployment kit, you can then access the help files. To get the deployment kit go to. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...=en&Hash=8KP7FL This should be the direct download link.I already have read those documents. Maybe I'm interpreting them incorrect? Or something else is wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TnT Posted March 30, 2005 Author Share Posted March 30, 2005 With ProvideDefault, the installation hangs at T-37 (with vmware). That is definitly not what I want :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TnT Posted August 10, 2005 Author Share Posted August 10, 2005 The following winnt.sif solves my problem. UnattendMode=ProvideDefault and OemPreinstall=Yes was the fix. Only the workgroup screen is missing during installation. Any suggestion to fix this last problem?;SetupMgrTag[Data] AutoPartition=0 MsDosInitiated=0 UnattendedInstall=Yes[Unattended] UnattendMode=ProvideDefault FileSystem=* OemPreinstall=Yes OemSkipEula=Yes WaitForReboot=No UnattendSwitch=Yes [GuiUnattended] OEMSkipRegional=0 OEMSkipWelcome=1 TimeZone=105[UserData] ProductKey=xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx FullName="" OrgName=""[Components] msmsgs=off msnexplr=off[Shell] DefaultThemesOff=Yes DefaultStartPanelOff=Yes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TnT Posted February 22, 2006 Author Share Posted February 22, 2006 Adding[Identification] JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP[Networking] InstallDefaultComponents=Yessolved the workgroup problem. Only the Timezone information and the components section is not applied with the setting UnattendMode=ProvideDefault. Seems like many people reported the same problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pirrup Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 [RegionalSettings] LanguageGroup=13,1 SystemLocale=00000813 UserLocale=00000813 InputLocale=0813:00000813 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TnT Posted February 22, 2006 Author Share Posted February 22, 2006 Providing the RegionalSettings section does not solve the timezone problem.But I found a nice solution to apply the components settings using cmdlines.txt:[COMMANDS] "sysocmgr /q /r /i:%windir%\inf\sysoc.inf /u:..\I386\winnt.sif"This trick was suggested in this post: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?s=&sho...ndpost&p=430038More information about Sysocmgr.exe: http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=222444 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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