Unattend install plus unattend program install

[somps]

My brother in law is Taiwanese. He sent my wife a CD/DVD (forgot which one) that was bootable. When it boots up, it has a GUI that has 4 options in Chinese: Intall Windows, Windows with programs, and 2 more options.

It looks just like Windows XP installation, complete with unattend install. I thought "cool. he made an unattended install of Chinese WinXP". When it finished and booted up, it had 7 or 8 programs loaded and fully ready to run! For example, Dr. Eye which is a translating tool for English and Chinese, Microsoft Office and a few more. I never saw an installation run seperately for these programs. It seemed like a mixture of a Ghost image mixed with an unattend install. This is the only way I know how to explain it. I asked him how this CD/DVD was made and he has no idea. He got it from a friend of a friend of a friend type thing.

Sorry for the long wind, but does anyone have any idea how this CD/DVD was put together? and maybe with what software/app?

I work in the MIS/IT department at work. One man job. Usually, when I deploy a system, its from an image, but I often need to do a clean install from the WinXP CD. I would like to be able to create a DVD that, once the install finishes, would boot up with our most common software installed.

Sorry if this doesn't make sense. I know this is out there, but have no clue as to how it was made.

[Zxian]

Click on the Unattended Guide link at the top of the page. A simple search for Unattended Install would have found a LOT of information.

As for making the CD/DVD - you're probably best off doing some simple reading and doing it yourself. You can use Microsoft Virtual PC (which is now free) to test out the CD before burning it or installing on a real system.

[ZcWorld]

for the boot menu type of thing

there is a program caled " ultraiso"

i think

but for the program installed

they are addon and / or via the runonce

[somps]

Thanx for the info.

I do understand the simple unattended install, but this is more.

I think I may have found out what made it, but all the info that I found is in Chinese. Anyone here understand Chinese? Hao bu Hao?

I found something about Super XP v. 7, but all my google searches return Chinese. Does Super XP sound familiar to anyone?

[Zxian]

Have you actually looked through the entire Unattended Guide? There's information on how to include silent application installs on the CD as well. I haven't heard of any program that will do everything for you, and honestly, I wouldn't trust one either.

[somps]

Thanx. For some reason, I couldn't find this post, so I made another post slightly different. I apologize for that. I have been on several forums about this and made a boo boo. Sorry.

I will study the guide. Being that I'm a very visual learner, anybody have a visual tutorial?