Some parts of WINNT.SIF being ignored?

[Aluminum]

Not exactly HFSLIP but I borrowed alot from FDV's file so I'm guessing he got it to work

Some of my settings in winnt.sif are being ignored during setup.

For example, in this one, things like the CD key and TCP/IP settings are totally ignored but the other parts appear to work, such as most of unnattended and about half of the rest.

Note: I have tried this with quotes around every string and no quotes, I've seen it done both ways all over the net, and usually mixed...people are just copy and pasting each other without explanation of why some use quotes and some don't. (and nobody is consistient with anyone else)

I used setupmgr to make a lot of the settings and guess what, it does the same **** thing!

Anyways here it is:

[Data]
AutoPartition="0"
MsDosInitiated="0"
UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[Unattended]
UnattendMode="ProvideDefault"
ExtendOemPartition="0"
FileSystem="LeaveAlone"
OemPreinstall="No"
OemSkipEula="Yes"
DriverSigningPolicy="Ignore"
Repartition="No"
TargetPath="\WINNT"
UnattendSwitch="Yes"
WaitForReboot="No"

[GuiUnattended]
EncryptedAdminPassword="No"
OEMSkipRegional="1"
OemSkipWelcome="1"
TimeZone="35"

[UserData]
ProductKey="XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX"
FullName="joebob"
OrgName="orgname"

[Display]
BitsPerPel="4"
Xresolution="800"
YResolution="600"
Vrefresh="60"

[setupparams]
skipmissingfiles="yes"

[Components]
IEAccess="off"
OEAccess="off"
WMAccess="off"

[TapiLocation]
CountryCode="1"
Dialing="Tone"

[Identification]
JoinWorkgroup="NULL"

[Networking]
InstallDefaultComponents="No"

[NetAdapters]
Adapter1="params.Adapter1"

[params.Adapter1]
INFID="*"

[NetProtocols]
MS_TCPIP="params.MS_TCPIP"

[params.MS_TCPIP]
DNS="Yes"
UseDomainNameDevolution="No"
EnableLMHosts="No"
AdapterSections="params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1"

[params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1]
SpecificTo="Adapter1"
DHCP="Yes"
WINS="No"
NetBIOSOptions="2"

Edited March 1, 2006 by Aluminum

[Tomcat76]

You know... I was doing unattended installations of Win2K some two years ago and I could never figure out the serial key stuff either. I can do it on XP but not on 2K. Maybe it only works with specific versions (OEM or retail), or maybe you need to edit SETUPP.INI...

[os2fan2]

Win2k uses "ProductId", not "ProductKey".

You may need to look at the windows 2k version of unattend.doc, which is on the cdrom. I think the params keys have the params at the end, not at the beginning, but i never used this.

If you are doing it through a bartpe install, then you have to grant everyone rights to the root directory, because XP changes the way the root directory works. This is for both the c: drive and the drive that windows is installed on.

[Aluminum]

Thanks for the cdkey info, at least I can get that part working. Its gotten to the point where I almost have 3 or 4 of them memorized.

The tcpip params stuff was all generated from setupmgr.exe off a windows 2000 server cd, so if it doesn't match the info in the doc from the same deploy.cab...thats both pretty darn funny and sad.

[tommyp]

Are you saying that instead of

[params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1]

it should be

[MS_TCPIP.Adapter1.params]

[Aluminum]

According to unattend.doc from W2k server cd, this is how you format it (copy n paste of sample on p113)

[Networking]

[Identification]
	JoinWorkgroup = ntdev

; We'll have two NICs - Adapter01 and Adapter02.
; Note: the adapter we specify here as #1 is not
; always LAN connection #1 in the UI.
[NetAdapters]
	Adapter01 = params.Adapter01
	Adapter02 = params.Adapter02
; specify what card NIC #1 is
[params.Adapter01]
	INFID = "pci\ven_0e11&dev_ae32"
; specify NIC #2
[params.Adapter02]
	INFID = "pci\ven_8086&dev_1229&subsys_00018086"
; install client for MS networks
[NetClients]
MS_MSClient = params.MS_MSClient
[params.MS_MSClient]

; only install TCP
[NetProtocols]
	MS_TCPIP = params.MS_TCPIP
[params.MS_TCPIP]

; TCP/IP properties
	AdapterSections =
	params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter01,params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter02
; card 1 using DHCP server info
[params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter01]
	DHCP = yes
	SpecificTo = Adapter01
; card 2 using static info
[params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter02]
	DefaultGateway = 2.2.2.2
	DHCP = no
	IPAddress = 1.1.1.1
	SpecificTo = Adapter02
	SubnetMask = 255.255.248.0
	WINS = no

But this isn't working for me, so I'm all for trying it other ways.

(if you have only 1 NIC and its detected by pnp the doc says you don't have to do the PCI vendor stuff, mine are)

I also got cd key and a few other things to work but regional still isn't

I'm spending an awful lot of time trying to save 2 minutes of installing heh