My Unattended CD is Not Unattended

[olidude]

Hi everybody, I discovered the unattended cd guide a couple of days ago and decided to give it a shot and make my own setup. Since I'm a complete noob to all of this (NO programming knowledge except for some GW basic learned in 6th grade ten years ago!), I started off in the beginner's section of the guide. I followed each step by the book first with nlite then, maually. What I did: Took a gold copy of XP pro, slipstreamed SP2, integraded hotfixes and updates, made a ISO of the new CD and mounted it in VMware. I configured the setup to be fully unattended both with nlite and manually in winnt.sif.

This is where I'm screwed... no matter how many times I try the setup is never automated! It always asks: witch partition to install, the s/n, shows the EULA, etc.. I just don't get what I'm doing wrong! I searched the forums for similar cases but didn't find anything. I've attached a copy of my winnt.sif file.

I'm sure there's an easy solution... Thanks to anybody who wishes to help me out and congrats for the great forum and the colossal work all of you guys put in to it.

BTW... once I get this problem solved I am definitly moving on to intermediate and expert!

edit: DOH! removed all personal info form winnt.sif...

winnt.sif

Edited December 27, 2005 by olidude

[bobthenob]

hi you whant to remove your licence key from your win sif

the partition bit is best left to let user set or it will just install maybe on wrong partion

i think the eula bit is

UnattendSwitch=yes

ive included my winsif removing name and serial

hope it may help

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

[Unattended]
   FileSystem=*  
	UnattendMode=FullUnattended
	OemSkipEula=Yes
	OemPreinstall=yes
	UnattendSwitch=yes
	TargetPath=\WINDOWS
	OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\ATI\2KXP_INF;Drivers\NVIDIA"
	DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore

[GuiUnattended]
	AdminPassword=*
	EncryptedAdminPassword=NO
	OEMSkipRegional=1
	TimeZone=85
	OemSkipWelcome=1

[UserData]
	ProductKey=removed
	FullName="removed"
	OrgName="removed"
	ComputerName="removed"

[TapiLocation]
	CountryCode=44

[Identification]
	JoinWorkgroup=HOME

[Networking]
	InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

[WindowsFirewall]
	Profiles=WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall

[WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall]
	Mode=0

[IEPopupBlocker]
	BlockPopups=Yes
	FilterLevel=Medium
	ShowInformationBar=Yes

[URL]
	Home_Page=http://www.google.com

[Components]
	IEAccess = Off
	msmsgs=off
	msnexplr=off
	freecell=off
	hearts=off
	minesweeper=off
	pinball=off
	solitaire=off
	spider=off
	zonegames=off

[RegionalSettings]
	LanguageGroup=1
	SystemLocale=00000809
	UserLocale=00000809
	InputLocale=0809:00000809

[Branding]
	BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes

[Proxy]
	Proxy_Enable=0
	Use_Same_Proxy=0

[Display]
	BitsPerPel=24
	Xresolution=1280
	YResolution=1024
	Vrefresh=60

[GuiRunOnce]
%systemdrive%\install\start.cmd

[=|= buzzbomb]

The EULA skip should be:

OEMSkipEULA=Yes

I have not used nLite, but have had good success setting it up Manually.

However, I believe you have to use either nLite or winnt.sif, not both at the same time. Maybe you did, maybe you didn't, but I would double-check that. I'll look over your winnt.sif, and see what I might be able to help with.

Regards,

buzzbomb

Edited December 27, 2005 by =|= buzzbomb

[olidude]

Thanks for your fast response, going to make changes

EDIT: Tested in VMware and all is good. Needless to say I didn't check the reference file from the deployment tools as spcified in the guide.

Time to try the reg tweaks and all.

Thanks alot for your help!

Edited December 27, 2005 by olidude