Best Way to test unattended installation

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I've created a Win2k boot CD complete with a slipstreamed install of SP4. The disc boots fine, but seems to be inconsistent about when it stops working in an automated fashion...one time it will get all the way to the GUI, another time it will stop at the beginning of text mode.

For troubleshooting purposes, and for the sake of time, I was wondering if there were any tools available to test the validity of the files, etc without having to watch it run completely through text mode and then file (this is a real time waster!)

Thanks for any help

 

[Joseph Conway [MSFT]]

Nope, the best way to test your unattended installs is to actually install
them. I would actually say to install them a few times would be a more
accurate test.

--
Joseph W. Conway, MCSE
Windows 9x/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server Group

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I've created a Win2k boot CD complete with a slipstreamed install of SP4.

The disc boots fine, but seems to be inconsistent about when it stops
working in an automated fashion...one time it will get all the way to the
GUI, another time it will stop at the beginning of text mode.

For troubleshooting purposes, and for the sake of time, I was wondering if

there were any tools available to test the validity of the files, etc
without having to watch it run completely through text mode and then file
(this is a real time waster!)