Pausing on Networking Page

[lurk&jerk]

What am I doing wrong that causes my Win XP installation to pause at the network setup page and require a workgroup name entry? (BTW after you fill it out it says you can't join the workgroup. Well, duh, there's no network connection active until setup finishes) I have tried filling out and NOT filling out the network tab in nLite and neither seems to make a difference since version 1.0. Is there a way to make a truely unattended install with nLite still?

Edited December 24, 2006 by lurk&jerk

[Kiki Burgh]

hi lurk&jerk! would you happen to have a predefined winnt.sif file? if so, this could be causing the conflict ... are you doing the install in a VM?

[lurk&jerk]

This is the pertinent part of the winnt.sif file generated by nLite:

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

[Unattended]
UnattendMode=DefaultHide
UnattendSwitch="No"
OemPreinstall="Yes"
OemSkipEula="Yes"
FileSystem=*
WaitForReboot="No"
NoWaitAfterTextMode=1
NoWaitAfterGUIMode=1
DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
NonDriverSigningPolicy=Ignore

[SystemRestore]
DisableSR=1
CreateFirstRunRp=0

[GuiUnattended]
AdminPassword="xxx"
TimeZone=xxx
OEMSkipRegional=1
OemSkipWelcome=1

[Shell]
CustomDefaultThemeFile="%WinDir%\Resources\Themes\xxx.Theme"
DefaultStartPanelOff="Yes"

[Components]

[UserData]
ProductKey="xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx"
ComputerName=xxx
FullName="xxx"
OrgName="xxx"

[RegionalSettings]
Language= "xxx"

[Networking]
InstallDefaultComponents="Yes"

[WindowsFirewall]
Profiles=WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall

[WindowsFirewall.TurnOffFirewall]
Mode=0

[Identification]
JoinWorkgroup="I've tried yes & no"

[GuiRunOnce]
"%SystemRoot%\System32\nLite.cmd"

This is a live CD, not VM, install.

Anything jump out at you?