Automated install

[Robert]

How can I make an automated install of XP. I want to use
a bootable floppy with a script that will format the hard
drive of a computer and preform an install, and I want it
to choose all of the settings. How do I go about doing
that. Any help is appreciated.

 

[Shenan T. Stanley]

How can I make an automated install of XP. I want to use
a bootable floppy with a script that will format the hard
drive of a computer and preform an install, and I want it
to choose all of the settings. How do I go about doing
that. Any help is appreciated.

unattended.sourceforge.net

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[Blue Ice]

On your CD is a wizard that will help you guiding through the procedure/
go to .\support\tools and extract deploy.cab. Then look for the file called
setupmgr.exe and run it. Now you need to fill out some information about the
things you want to configure. The files you will create are called
unattended.bat and unattended.txt. You should rename the .txt file to
winnt.sif (This can also be done during creation of the file). But it is
important that the file is called winnt.sif. After renaming you put thif
file on a disk and then you can restart your computer from the CD, but let
the 3.5" disk in the drive, because during installation it will be looking
for the disk several times. You probably will have to configure the harddisk
(partitions and formatting) before the rest goes automatically. More
information can be found in the files called deploy.chm and ref.chm which
goes with the wizard or look at the MS website.

After that create a bootdisk by inserting a 3.5" disk into your computer and
format it with 'Format a: /s'. Open autoexec.bat and add lines like this:
Format c: <switches>
%CDROM%>:\i386\winnt.exe <switches>
You can find the information for the <switches> by typing format /? and
winnt.exe /?. You can leave %CDROM% like this when you use a win98 bootdisk
(this one I know for sure) or replace it by a driveletter.