Upgrade vs New (w/key)

[BrandonS_Mil]

I hope this is the right area to ask.....

I and make my "New Instalation" from my mulit boot DVD work without asking for CD key.

What i can't make work is doing the upgrade with out a cd key. Please help....

P.S. if anyone could help with different problem.... Partition Magic 8 boot disk... i used DVD guide to make an image, edited to autoexec on disk to not ask for second floppy, but now it says it "no system disk". please help...

[MAVERICKS CHOICE]

You need to do a thorough search beyond thirty days, Alanoll & myself have discussed this previously quite easily done with winimage. Search mee boy search.....

[BrandonS_Mil]

OK, i have spent the last 2 hrs looking and it seems everyone is having the same problem.:

1. No real answers, just rude comments.

2. No explanation of how to correct the problem.

So, i will reask my question with some more details.

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Win XP SP2 - boot clean install -- asks user questions but already has CD key.

Win 2k3 server - boot clean install -- asks user questions but already has CD key.

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Win XP SP2 upgrade - asks user for CD key

win 2k3 server - asks user for cd key.

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I don't nessisarily need it to be an unattended install (my other one works fine) I just want to be able to setup XP or 2K3 with in windows (Upgrade) and have it already know the CD key. I still want users to imput there options.

Attached is my winnt.sif and doubled as unattend.txt as per microsoft instructions.

;SetupMgrTag
[Data]
    AutoPartition=1
    MsDosInitiated="0"
    UnattendedInstall="Yes"
    AutomaticUpdates=1

[Unattended]
    UnattendMode=DefaultHide
    OemSkipEula=Yes
    OemPreinstall=No
    TargetPath=\WINDOWS
    WaitorReboot="No"
    
[GuiUnattended]
    EncryptedAdminPassword=NO
    OEMSkipRegional=1

[UserData]
    ProductKey=XXX
    FullName=""
    OrgName=""

[TapiLocation]
    CountryCode=1
    Dialing=Tone

[Identification]
    JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP

[Networking]
    InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

Someone Please help.

P.S. if all your going to do is be rude and not provide any real help/guidance : Please don't post.

[djbe]

I think the thread maverick mentioned was this one?

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=19366

found it after 5 minutes

edit:

about your other question, dunno, srry

[dman]

try

UnattendMode=ProvideDefault

i think that is what you want

[BrandonS_Mil]

First off --

Thanks "dman" and "djbe" !!!

djbe -- the post about PM8... worked wonders in making it boot, but i also found that ONE file..PQPB.RTC...was a hidden system file and didn't copy... it works great now.

dman -- I tried but it didn't work, but I really appreciate the fact that you offered help.

(note: I sent an email to Microsoft asking that question since I also work for the Military i thought it would help... I will get back to all on this issue)