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Help! Question about Unattended installs
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| JParks79 2001-08-27, 11:36 am |
| I am having problems with doing an unattended intstall of Win2k prof using a bootable CD. I created a answer file using setup manager. I followed the instructions by placing the answer file and associated bat file on a floppy. I made a copy of my answer file and renamed it WINNT.SIF. Apparenetly, you have to do this so WIN2K Cd can read the answer file. I also made the following manual changes to the answer file:
AutoPartition=1
MsDosInitiated="0"
UnattendedInstall="Yes"
OemPreinstall=YES
ProductId="Inserted my Product Key"
I also formated my target drive (60gb) using fdisk with a 10gb FAT32 partition. I named it C: and it is the only partition on the drive.
When I do the install of 2k no answer is invoked. I have to answer all the questions.
Thanks for your help! | |
| TW2001 2001-08-27, 12:34 pm |
| Try adding UnattendMode=Full unattend. | |
| JParks79 2001-08-27, 1:35 pm |
| Here is my answer file:
;SetupMgrTag
[Data]
AutoPartition=1
MsDosInitiated="0"
UnattendedInstall="Yes"
[Unattended]
UnattendMode=FullUnattended
OemSkipEula=Yes
OemPreinstall=YES
TargetPath=\WINNT
[GuiUnattended]
AdminPassword=test
OEMSkipRegional=1
TimeZone=20
OemSkipWelcome=1
[UserData]
FullName=Norman
OrgName=Home
ComputerName=TEst
ProductId="I inserted my Product ID here"
[Display]
BitsPerPel=8
Xresolution=1024
YResolution=768
Vrefresh=60
[RegionalSettings]
LanguageGroup=1
[Identification]
JoinWorkgroup=@HOME
[Networking]
InstallDefaultComponents=Yes | |
| JParks79 2001-08-27, 2:23 pm |
| I made a mistake....I thought I was changing the file type by right-clicking on the file and typing .sif. All that did was append .sif to .txt. So I renamed it by saving the file as type sif. It works now!
Sorry for wasting everybody's time.
Thanks though for the help! | |
| Slinky 2001-08-27, 5:12 pm |
| If you go into Explorer and then folder options, and uncheck the box that says "hide file extensions for known file types", it will make renaming like that easier. Otherwise it will end up winnt.sif.txt like you already stated. |
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