Help please!

[nunu_w]

Hello all!

I'm new here, so my question might sound stupid for you, but I've been struggling with this problem for hours, and have no clue what to do...

so, here's the thing...

I've been trying to do unattended installation of windows xp using the manual. Did everything as written in the "Beginner" section.

when trying to test the installation on virtual machine, I get the following error as shown in the attachment.

what did i do wrong?

here's my winnt.sif file:

[Unattended]
Unattendmode = FullUnattended
OemPreinstall = NO
TargetPath = *
Filesystem = LeaveAlone


[GuiUnattended]
; Sets the Timezone to GMT+2
; Sets the Admin Password to NULL
; Turn AutoLogon ON and login once
TimeZone = "135"
AdminPassword = *
AutoLogon = Yes
AutoLogonCount = 1


[LicenseFilePrintData]
; For Server installs
AutoMode = "PerServer"
AutoUsers = "5"


[GuiRunOnce]
; List the programs that you want to lauch when the machine is logged into for the first time


[Display]
BitsPerPel = 16
XResolution = 800
YResolution = 600
VRefresh = 70


[Networking]


[Identification]
JoinWorkgroup = Workgroup


[UserData]
FullName = "Your User Name"
OrgName = "Your Organization Name"
ComputerName = *






ProductKey     = "XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX"

p.s,

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when not using winnt.sif, but unattend.txt, then i get no error messages, but ofcourse the install will ignore the unattend.txt file...

[oioldman]

and what does the setup.log file say when you look at it?

you may want to add ;setupmgrtag as the first line in your winnt.sif, but i don't think that is the issue you are having.

in your [unattended] section you have missing unattendedswitch = yes missing

you have he section [LicenseFilePrintData] but screen dumps look like xp to me, and this is server specific, so how did you create your winnt.sif file? did you use the deployment files the page directed you to?

make sure your winnt.sif is called such and is located in the i386 folder

[nunu_w]

hi oioldman,

thanks for your advice! i started a new winnt.sif file from scratch with your advices, and so far it works just fine without any errors!

cheers!!