Am working through the XP unattended guide to make my first unattended disk.

Dumb A** question,

but I am assuming that the guide will work exactly the same for a win2000 installation with changes (xp/win2k) as appropriate, obviously?

It worked for Windows 2000 long before XP was released, so the simple answer is "yes".

If you ARE going to use 2000 - although I cant think why(?) - make sure you slipstream SP4 into it. What vers of Win2000 do you have? If its SP0 or SP1 then just slip SP4 straight into it, there's no need to apply previous packs first.

Then check this site here for the Win2000SP4 deployment tools

http://www.microsoft.com/windows2000/downl...deploytools.asp

...and check the sticky at the top of the forum to see which extra updates need to be applied, too.

Here:

http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=31886

...and check the caveat with regards to hotfixes being reliant on certain other components being part of your install i.e. updates assume IE 6 & WMP 9 & DirectX 9.0c & MSN Messenger 7 are to be installed.

EDIT This has just been released today too! Rollup update pack for Win2000SP4:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...&DisplayLang=en

Edited June 28, 200521 yr by DLF

Great response.

Using window 2000 sp0 and playing around with blank formatted hard disks for experimenting.

Buying a laptop V soon and so will get XP Pro with it to play with more

Assumed that the dumb A** question was dumb but just wanted to be sure, as I am having a bit of trouble creating my first disk at the mo. It wont load up at all.

will keep plodding along to see if I can sort it before asking for advice. - best way to learn I think

Thanks

It wont load up at all

If you be a bit more specific someone may be able to help. Do you mean it wont boot?

I'd be interested in knowing the command to create an iso file using CDIMAGE

this is what I use for XP

@echo off
TITLE Creating ISO Image of Windows XP Professional
ECHO.
ECHO Removing any possible attributes set on D:\MS_OS\XPCDPROSP2 and its subfolders...
attrib -R -H D:\MS_OS\XPCDPROSP2 /S /D
ECHO. 
ECHO Creating ISO...
CDIMAGE.EXE -lWXPFPP_EN -t12/31/2002,12:00:00 -h -j1 -m -bxpboot.img D:\MS_OS\XPCDPROSP2 D:\sp2WXPFPP_EN.ISO
ECHO.
PAUSE
EXIT