Unattended Installation

[Noip]

Hi all,

some years ago I used to setup win98 using a boot disk that would partition/format/install the OS by itself. At last I would get the win98 desktop prompting me for Product Key/ User name and some other stuff.

Is it actually available for win XP?

 

[jmatt]

Create A Bootable Windows XP Installation CD Slipstreamed with SP1

http://www.theeldergeek.com/slipstreamed_xpsp1_cd.htm

http://pubs.logicalexpressions.com/Pub0009/LPMArticle.asp?ID=258

http://www.tacktech.com/display.cfm?id=202&object=article.cfm

http://www.msfn.org/unattended/xp/index.htm

http://www.microsoft.com/WindowsXP/pro/downloads/servicepacks/sp1/deploytools.asp

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http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...net/prodtechnol/winxppro/proddocs/winnt32.asp

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/prbc_cai_tidq.asp

http://www.hytekcomputer.com/Articles/XPInstall/1.shtml

 

[Noip]

Thanks jmatt,

but I need one utility that will also create / format a partition as well.

 

[bcastner]

In your .sif file there are two sections that control the partitioning:

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[Data]

AutoPartition=1 or 0
If you have the selection on 1 then Windows Setup will install the OS on any free partition that is available. If you remove this line or if you put AutoPartition=0 then setup will ask you on which partition you wish to install Windows onto and advises you what to do if your partition already contains an OS.

[Unattended]

Repartition=Yes
Specifies whether to delete all partitions on the first drive of the client computer and to reformat the drive with the NTFS file system.