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PCWaryor

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XP unattended setup
« on: April 20, 2002, 01:21:02 PM »
Hello Guys

I don\'t know if therw ill be an answer to my problem or not, I used the setupmngr on the XP CD to create the unattend.bat and txt files, copied them over on a CD that is a WinXP bootable, rebooted and the installation launched the regular way, so I quit and used the floppy boot to run the .bat file manually it said can not run in DOS mode, does this mean the Unattended setup needs to be done in Windows Mode only? ie if you format the drive you can\'t do unatended install?
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XP unattended setup
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2002, 03:07:48 PM »
check the batch file. the batch file uses exact file names and locations, and they might need to be modified.
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« Reply #2 on: May 01, 2003, 12:05:58 PM »
The batch file created probably uses the winnt32.exe to install WinXP.  If so, this executable can only be run from a previous version of windows, like Win95, 98 or ME.  To run from DOS, you must use the winnt.exe to install it.

Be aware that this version has just about the same options, but the syntax will change.  Type Winnt.exe /? to get the proper syntax description.  You cannot use this for winnt32.exe.  The help file is within windows, it will not function from a DOS booted system.

Another thing, the unattend.txt file must be renamed to winnt.sif when installning from a cd.  The syntax is the same, just the filename changes.
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« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2003, 07:56:55 AM »
Rename unattend.txt to winnt.sif

Open Notepad and paste the following:
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@rem SetupMgrTag
@echo off

set AnswerFile=.\winnt.sif
set SetupFiles=.\i386

.\i386\winnt32 /s:%SetupFiles% /unattend:%AnswerFile%save it as winnt.bat (make sure it doesn't save it as winnt.bat.txt - choose \"(*.*) All Files\" in the save as dialog)

Add both files to the /i386 directory in your ISO with WinISO (this process is better than extracting your CD to HDD and burning it back to CD with a boot.bin)
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« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2003, 09:30:52 PM »
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