I need your help.

[venim]

Well my first post here.Tried to create my first unattended cd.Yesterday tried to install it in my putter but I didn't get the option to format my selected (installing) partition.

I have made a hotfixes folder and a install folder (for wmp9 & directX 9b) only.

I believe I have done sth wrong with my winnt.sif .

[valexvo]

@venim

I posted the same question some day's ago. I still have the same problem. I think is a little bit complicated. I read in ref.chm that it must be created a winboom.ini file, but until now I have no experience for doing that. I read that this can be done by deleting the partition for windows (C:) , recreate the partition and then the installer ask how to format the new partition. I don't try this, but today I'll try and post the results.

regards

alex

[webmedic]

did you guys read the guide here:

http://www.MSFN.org/unattended/xp/index.htm

it explains things very well

and there is no need to use any winboom.ini

now to answer you guys directly

here is part of the winnt.sif that handles what you refer to.

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

[Unattended]
AutoActivate="no"
;CrashDumpSetting="0"
DisableDynamicUpdates=Yes
;FileSystem=LeaveAlone
;Hibernation=0
UnattendMode=FullUnattended
OemSkipEula=Yes
OemPreinstall=Yes
TargetPath=\WINDOWS
Repartition=No
UnattendSwitch="Yes"
WaitForReboot="No"
NoWaitAfterTextMode=1
NoWaitAfterGUIMode=1
DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
OemPnPDriversPath="Drivers\radeon-cat3_6\2KXP_INF;Drivers\radeon-cat3_6\TV_Capture\WDM_XP;Drivers\Nvidia;Drivers\nforce;Drivers\nforce\AudioDRV;Drivers\nforce\AudioUtl;Drivers\nforce\Display;Drivers\nforce\Ethernet;Drivers\nforce\GART;Drivers\nforce\IDE;Drivers\nforce\MemCtl;Drivers\nforce\SMBus;Drivers\nforce\USB;Drivers\IDE_RAID;Drivers\4in1442v;Drivers\4in1442v\AGP;Drivers\4in1442v\AGP33;Drivers\4in1442v\AgpME;Drivers\4in1442v\IDEWinXP;Drivers\4in1442v\Inf;Drivers\4in1442v\IRQ;Drivers\4in1442v\Pfd;Drivers\4in1442v\WinXP;Drivers\VIA-VT6103;Drivers\wdm;Drivers\wdm\wdm;"

This will let you partition it yourself as that is how I have mine setup.

[valexvo]

OK , webmedic I'll try the code. To be more specific : I want to make a FRESH install of WinXP on the desired partition and to format the partition before installing. Like the normal WinXP CD do.

(Note: The partition allready contains a winXP, but I like a new fresh installation with reformat)

THX

regards

alex

[b0r3d]

Just adding the Autopartitian = 0 to the winnt.sif file will prompt you when you boot off the CD which drive you want to install windows to. When you select it, it'll format it for you aswell.

[webmedic]

OK , webmedic I'll try the code. To be more specific : I want to make a FRESH install of WinXP on the desired partition and to format the partition before installing. Like the normal WinXP CD do.

(Note: The partition allready contains a winXP, but I like a new fresh installation with reformat)

THX

regards

alex

well wiht that code above you will have to do your hard drive setup manually just like you want it's not automatic but it will let you format the hard drive before it starts the install. The only downside i have found is taht I can not do a revocery of windows it will simply not give me the option if it finds windows on the hard drive already.

You can either format the drive or delete the windows directory.

[venim]

Thanx webmedic for your help.Gonna test it later because I want to make my custom setup screen.

[venim]

Well it worked thanx.

I burned the cd and I'm trying to install it using vmware.

After I installed it I got this message : windows can not find $OEM$\$1\install\main_batch.cmd and $OEM$\$1\install\hotfixes.cmd.

I put both winnt.sif & winnt.bat in i386 folder of my cd.

In my winnt.sif is the directories

[GuiRunOnce]

%systemdrive%\$OEM$\$1\install\main_batch.cmd

%systemdrive%\$OEM$\$1\install\hotfixes.cmd

Any help?

[webmedic]

yes hee using pcanywere or whatever it's called it takes forever to do an install. I'd say about 1 1/2 - 2 hours.

this

[GuiRunOnce]

%systemdrive%\$OEM$\$1\install\main_batch.cmd

%systemdrive%\$OEM$\$1\install\hotfixes.cmd

should be this

[GuiRunOnce]

%systemdrive%\install\main_batch.cmd

%systemdrive%\install\hotfixes.cmd

[venim]

Thanx gonna test it later.

What about the main_batch.cmd & hotfixes.cmd I have the directories inside eg:%systemdrive%\$OEM$\$1\install\WMP9\MPSetupXP.exe and a hotfixe example start /wait %systemdrive%\$OEM\$1\install\Hotfixes\Q323255_WXP_SP2_x86_ENU.exe .

[Aaron]

Thanx gonna test it later.

What about the main_batch.cmd & hotfixes.cmd I have the directories inside eg:%systemdrive%\$OEM$\$1\install\WMP9\MPSetupXP.exe  and a hotfixe example start /wait %systemdrive%\$OEM\$1\install\Hotfixes\Q323255_WXP_SP2_x86_ENU.exe .

I can see you don't quite fully understand the concept of these $OEM$ folders. To put it simply, the naming of these folders instruct Setup where they should be copied to.

Everything in $OEM$\$1 will be copied to C:\ (or the systemdrive the OS is installed on).

Everything in $OEM$\$$ is copied to C:\Windows

So, $OEM$\$1\install will become C:\install

This will only work when OemPreinstall=Yes is specified in winnt.sif

[venim]

Well thanx for your answer.Just found it out but forgot to post it...

[venim]

A final and silly question maybe.

How could the folder created in the hard disk I mean the install folder be erased after a successfull procedure?

[b0r3d]

To make a directory when installing applications, in your batch files put:

md directory where directory is the path and name of the directory you wish to make.

For example:

md c:\newfolder

[venim]

I don't want to create a folder I want to erase the folder that install creates...

It creates a folder install in the root of c: disk and it copies inside hotfixes,regfixes,directx9b