Advice on best approach for an unattended build

[brettule]

Hi,

I want to achieve a single build, what's the best approach in your wisdom?

I have a ghosted XP image with all various applications and OS tweaks already installed. It's been syspreped ready for deployment.

- The image needs to identify and load drivers for many different hardware platforms, mainly Dell's.

Q. Is the best way to do this with the answer file?

- The image although English will be deployed in many timezones and require many different regional settings/keyboards/etc.

Q. Should I use a script at some point to prompt for a location to set up the regional settings, where would I do this?

[IcemanND]

The image needs to identify and load drivers for many different hardware platforms, mainly Dell's.

Q. Is the best way to do this with the answer file?

just put all of the drives you want in it, and use either OemPnPDriversPath in the Unatteneded section of the sysprep.inf file to indicate the paths to the additional drives or populate the DriversPath Registry key with the same information. The registry key can take a longer string than the INF file can.

- The image although English will be deployed in many timezones and require many different regional settings/keyboards/etc.

Q. Should I use a script at some point to prompt for a location to set up the regional settings, where would I do this?

I would run the script at the first logon from Runonce or Runonceex, see unattended.msfn.org for more on these methods.