Setup restarts

[sarmo]

Hey everyone...I'm new to the Unattended installs and have been working on my own. I am trying to make a Fully Unattended install but everytime setup gets to the part in the GUI setup where it says "installing Distributed Transaction Coordinator" my PC restarts. It then restarts the setup and does the same thing over and over.

Now when I have the most simple UI (sp4 integrated, but nothing else included) it works fine. But as soon as I try to add my $OEM$ folders (along with changing OEMPREINSTALL in winnt.sif) or I try adding svcpack folder and inf file, it restarts in the same place. No matter which one I do (svcpack or $OEM$ folders, or both together) I have the same error message in my setuperr.log :

WARNING:

NetSetup: Could not find a section for {string of numbers and letters that's diff. everytime}, therefore if parameters were specified for this adapter (e.g. static IP address, etc.) they will not be used.

Now I have my network settings in my answer file set to default everything....and it doesn't make sense to me why I'm getting this error b/c it works fine w/out extras in my installation.

By the way, I am testing on a real PC. When I run the same CD on M$ Virtual PC, it works fine...

TIA

[sarmo]

bump?

[rdalling]

Perhaps you can add some more information...winnt.sif and other related files.

your not giving us much to go on...

-R-

[sarmo]

Here is my winnt.sif (it restarts setup when I use this one)

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

[Unattended]
    UnattendMode=FullUnattended
    OemSkipEula=Yes
    OemPreinstall=Yes
    Repartition=Yes
    WaitForReboot="No"

[GuiUnattended]
    AdminPassword=*
    AutoLogon=Yes
    AutoLogonCount=1
    OEMSkipRegional=1
    TimeZone=40
    OemSkipWelcome=1

[UserData]
    ProductID=xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx
    FullName="FW"
    OrgName="FW"
    ComputerName=spare51

[Display]
    BitsPerPel=4
    Xresolution=640
    YResolution=480
    Vrefresh=60

[Identification]
    JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP

[Networking]
    InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

I have an $OEM$ directory parallel to my I386 directory and inside I have a $1\drivers and $1\updates folder. I am not trying to apply any hotfixes until I can figure this out. I have SP4 slipstreamed into the install.

Let me know if you need anymore information.

[gunsmokingman]

Try Changing This

  FullName="FW"

  OrgName="FW"

To This

  FullName="FW1"

  OrgName="FW2"

I Think You Cannot Have Both The Same Name I Am Not 100% Sure On This.

Here What Mine Looks Like

[userData]    ProductKey=*****************************

    FullName="Home-Beta-2004"

    OrgName="Beta-Home-2004"

    ComputerName=Home-Beta-2004

[sarmo]

Well, I have actually tried using unique names in each field, but thanks for the suggestion.

Anyway, it actually looks like I figured it out! I removed the hd and placed it in another (but different) system I have. I tried the same cd in the new system and it worked fine. There must be some weird hardware problem/conflict in the system I was originally using. At least that's the only thing I can think of. The original system was a crap system anyway (PC CHIPS) so it doesn't surprise me that it had trouble.

Thanks for trying guys!