oystercatcher Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 Having been using unattended installs with winxp and win2k for some time nowand would never want to go back. Recently got a free athlon motherboardand fiddled for some time until I determined the floppy controller was bad.I installed winxp manually but decided to ask on this forum if there areany alternate methods to using a floppy?I would prefer a method that doesnt require network access butif that is the only way so be it. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike_Wilson Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 on the cd? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noise Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 You can put your customized winnt.sif file in the I386 directory of your UACD. During setup Windows will look for the winnt.sif file on the floppy disk, then in the I386 directory. I'm not sure if you can put the winnt.sif file on other removable media (like a usb flash disk), I've never tried it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
^_^ Posted July 1, 2005 Share Posted July 1, 2005 yeah, when I don't use a floppy, I put the winnt.sif file in the /i386 folder, and put my software installs in the /install folder.then I have to make changes to the scripting to point to the new locations.if you don't know how to make the new cd, read the guide at http://unattended.msfn.org/global/finish.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oystercatcher Posted July 2, 2005 Author Share Posted July 2, 2005 Thanks for the helpHavent done the cd thing so am downloadingthe pdf of the unattended xp cd guide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
^_^ Posted July 2, 2005 Share Posted July 2, 2005 Good luck buddy, the first one took me 8 hours to figure out, but as far as I'm concerned it was worth it.seems everyone but me is now using nlite to do the dirty work, but I still script mine with batch files Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxXPsoft Posted July 2, 2005 Share Posted July 2, 2005 A Floppy Controller card is really cheap if you have the slot.Of course the CD/DVD methods are much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kanete Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 yeah, when I don't use a floppy, I put the winnt.sif file in the /i386 folder, and put my software installs in the /install folder.then I have to make changes to the scripting to point to the new locations.if you don't know how to make the new cd, read the guide at http://unattended.msfn.org/global/finish.htmI've been trying to make that kind of installation. I was reading some manuals and some posts. I would like to know to what part of the guide points the link putted by ^_^. When I click on it, nothing opens, I guess that this is because the main page changed since this post where wrote.Does anyone now where that link points to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZaForD Posted February 7, 2007 Share Posted February 7, 2007 @ ^_^Your not quite the last one yet. I'm still there with ya. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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