Unattend won't work!!!!!!!!

[wannabeageek 0]

*Banging head on keyboard*

 

I have been trying, unsuccessfully to use unattended install for windows xp for 5 days of my spare time now, and have a dozen CD/RW's sitting here waiting to be erased. Out of the 2 copies of XP pro I own, one pre-sp1, the other xpprosp1, and cannot get it to work no matter what I edit, whether I'm trying to use it from a floppy or copied into I386, Whether I have it as unattend.txt, or winnt.sif, whether, i change the path in the batch file to reflect the answer file, or not use the batch file at all. I have read everything from this site, OC.com, and even my XP unleashed book, Notta! Both my copies are OEM's. Is this what is causing this? is there a workaround? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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What is it doing? Getting errors? Do you see the floppy being accessed during boot with the CD inserted? Your best bet is to get it ironed out with the floppy first, so let's see what you have (post it).

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Here's a Win2K one, and you might want to try using the Setup Manager utility from the XP/2003 CD:

 

;SetupMgrTag

[Data]

AutoPartition=1

MsDosInitiated="0"

UnattendedInstall="Yes"

TargetPath=WINNT

 

[unattended]

DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore

UnattendMode=FullUnattended

OemSkipEula=Yes

OemPreinstall=Yes

Repartition="Yes"

ExtendOEMPartition=1

FileSystem=ConvertNTFS

 

[GuiUnattended]

AdminPassword=password

AutoLogon=Yes

AutoLogonCount=1

OEMSkipRegional=1

TimeZone=15

OemSkipWelcome=1

 

[userData]

FullName="Default User"

OrgName="Default Company"

ComputerName=TEST

ProductID="YOURK-EYENT-EREDR-IGHTH-ERE12"

 

[LicenseFilePrintData]

AutoMode=PerSeat

 

[identification]

JoinWorkgroup=YOURWORKGRP

 

[Networking]

InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

 

[Components]

TSEnable=On

TSKeyboardDrivers=On

TSPrinterDrivers=On

TSClients=On

LicenseServer=0

ApplicationServer=0

 

[GuiRunOnce]

Command0=D:\Batch\yourbatchfile.bat

[wannabeageek 0]

Here is mine now. It will access the floppy, but it continues right on to text mode. There is also a .txt file in I386, called SETUPACC which is a Accessable setup answer file, and the last line is: UnattendMode = GuiAttend. Is this whats throwing the wrench in the works?

 

 

 

;SetupMgrTag

[Data]

AutoPartition=1

MsDosInitiated="0"

UnattendedInstall="Yes"

 

[unattended]

UnattendMode=FullUnattended

OemSkipEula=Yes

OemPreinstall=No

TargetPath=\WINDOWS

 

[GuiUnattended]

AdminPassword="123"

EncryptedAdminPassword=NO

OEMSkipRegional=1

TimeZone=35

OemSkipWelcome=1

 

[userData]

ProductKey=****-****-****-*****-*****

FullName="joe"

OrgName="Joes mule farm"

ComputerName=Fred

 

[TapiLocation]

CountryCode=1

Dialing=Tone

AreaCode=555

 

[identification]

JoinWorkgroup=MSHOME

 

[Networking]

InstallDefaultComponents=Yes