Winnt.exe install stops after reboot

[pevan]

I made an unattended xp install with nlite and saved on my harddisk.

First way of install:

I run cmd in xp,

j:\xp\i386\winnt32.exe /unattend2:winnt.sif /tempdrive:j

Drive J: is the third primary partition ( fat32) on second hard drive

This works perfect and my new xp is installed in 9 minutes.

Second way

BUT if I boot into DOS and run a similar command

c:\xp\i386\winnt.exe /u:winnt.sif /t:c

It starts off good, copies files onto harddrive and then reboots.

After reboot it shows the normal entries of my bootini without the new "Windows Xp setup" entry

As u can see I installed on drive c: ( /t:c )

because c: is the same partition as j: but viewed in dos, as dos does not read the ntfs partitions (most of my partition are NTFS)

It did write 2 directories in c: ( or J: if booting into xp) something like $winnt_BT and $winnt_BS

Anyone knows why it stops here?

I run it many times from xp ( first way) without any problem so I'm sure the files are not corrupt.

Does it matter which dos version to use, I tried dos 7 , and ntfs 4 dos, same problems.

BTW the xp files are run from drive c: or from another fat32 partition, that doesn't seem to matter.

thanks

[Ponch]

Maybe the fact that once you reboot in XP, it sees all other partitions and gets confused wich one to boot as letters change ?

[pevan]

It should be possible though...

I tried the same on a other pc (different hardware) with only 1 partition fat32 and it stopped too.

(as I mentioned earlier, it installs without problems from within xp using winnt32)

There is also an unattend.txt file present in the xp folder (but outside the i386 folder) but that shouldn'd be a problem, right?

The only files in c: are the xp folder made with nlite and ntldr ntdetect

what could be wrong?

Peter