MY Unattended XP Hangs during Installation.

[fordac]

Hi friends....I created an unattended xp using Nlite. I followed the steps from this board to edit the bootscreen and billboards but after creating the image of the setup disk i tried to install it in Microsoft virtual PC 2007 but the installation hangs during the "INSTALLING DEVICES" screen and there is no response after that....

Could someone help me and tell me where i went wrong.

THIS IS MY WINNT.SIF file settings

; Generated by nLite 1.3 RC 2

[Data]

AutomaticUpdates="Yes"

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]

[GuiUnattended]

TimeZone=190

OEMSkipRegional=1

OemSkipWelcome=1

[shell]

CustomDefaultThemeFile="%WinDir%\Resources\Themes\My Theme (nL).theme"

[Components]

[userData]

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

ComputerName=FORDAC

FullName="POWER USER"

OrgName="HOME"

[RegionalSettings]

Language= "0409"

[Networking]

InstallDefaultComponents="Yes"

[blinkdt]

Could someone help me and tell me where i went wrong.

That's a tough question based on the available information. Your use of parens in the theme file name strikes me as odd.

Other than that, I've never had a setup hang at "installing devices," but then again I've never used nLite, edited a bootscreen or billboard, used an image of a setup disk to perform an install, or installed on a virtual PC. I tend to adher to the guide and do things manually, then install on a testbed machine.

[rajesh.kumar]

theme-file name could not be a problem here.

[iTwins]

I had problems with nLite (and HFSlip and other methods of unattended installation) before where I tell it to unattendedly install certain device drivers.

During the middle of the Post-GUI installation near where it detects plug 'n' play devices, the system always hangs. It took me a long time to figure out and narrow down the culprits: HD Audio drivers. Actually, this is not entirely nLite's fault. Even if you instruct your unattended installation to include OEMPnPDriversPath with the HDAudio drivers, your installation could still hang. I have experienced this behavior on WinXP SP2 and Win2K3 SP1.

To correct this, either

1) tell nLite to integrate the KB888111 hotfix (KB888111) or

2) Remove the HDAudio drivers from the drivers directory (eg: remove HDaudio drivers from $OEM$\$1\Drivers\Audio) or

3) Remove the drivers from your unattended installation completely