Installing win2k unattended from DOS

[I_Broke_My_MHZ]

I am getting massivly p***ed off. Any answeres would be greatly apreciated.

So basically im doing a clean install of Win2k on Win98 unattended. So I copy the install files to c:\win2kinst, then boot to DOS and run

c:\win2kinst\i386\winnt.exe

It asks me for the files directory, at which I input c:\win2kinst\i386, allows me to select a partition, then converts the drive. Fine. Then the installation starts. This is the part that is suppost to be unattended. But at the beginning it asks for where autoexec.nt and other files are. DAMNIT! What am I doing wrong?

I attached my winnt.sif file if anyone wants a look.

WINNT.SIF

[BlkDrgn465]

In your winnt.sif...you have:

UnattendMode = ProvideDefault

It Should be:

UnattendMode = FullUnattended

You have:

TargetPath = "winnt"

Should be:

TargetPath = "\winnt"

and i'm pretty sure that the guirunonce needs to be in the format of "command0=%systemdrive%\install\installstuff.cmd"

Hope this helps a little

Breathe a little...this is supposed to be fun

[I_Broke_My_MHZ]

Oh its fun..when it works. Trial and error is no fun, however

Thanks for looking that winnt.sif file over. I made the changes. As it turned out it wasn't even being loaded since the command should have been

Winnt /U:c:\win2kinst\i386\winnt.sif

That whole file copy error thing turned out to be caused by nLite, which has problems with non-boot from cd installations at the moment. So I had to remake the CD image.

And to top it all off putting $oem$ in the i386 folder proved to be a mistake, since when the files were copied they were all given MSDOS compatable names (windows went ~1 happy on all my $oem$ contents). Lesson learned, put $oem$ next to i386.