how do i make an unattended install

[macguy]

Ok, I have a link to make an unattended install from windows xp. i have a
problem though cus my motherboard has raid on it. i don't use the raid, but
i use the controller for it because it's ata133 and it's faster then ata100.
so when windows boots from my xp cd it asks you to hit F6 for third party
raid or scsi, i do this and then continue to install. now what i understand,
the unattended install says you make the answer file, make a new windows xp
cd with the answer file on the new cd. then you boot from the cd and walk
away. when you come back you'll be at a desktop all done. How can I do this
so it works on my raid controller? cus it asks you to hit F6 for third party
raid and scsi drivers, then i insert my motherboard floppy disk which has
the drivers. so how can i do this so i can insert the cd and walk away? or
get it to use the floppy somehow and then walk away after it loads the raid
controller drivers. cus if it doesn't load the raid controller drivers it
can not see my hard drive and i can't install on it.

thanks for help if anyone can help me out here.

 

[Joseph Conway [MSFT]]

Look for the deploy.cab on your CD, it has some great help files that can
walk you through this. Basically you are going to need to make a winnt.sif
file and copy it to a floppy, then boot the machine from CD and immediately
add push the floppy in, it will use the floppy to answer the UI prompts.
The winnt.sif will need a location to the driver and an added section for
MassStorage.