Installing with WINNT from DOS

[Guest]

Objective:
To install Microsoft Windows XP Professional from over the network

1. My HDD is partitioned and formated with win98 FDISK.exe & FORMAT.com
2. I boot with network boot disk
3. I connect to i386 share on distribution server
4. I run winnt.exe
5. XP setup then copies files to FAT32 HDD
6. Restart FAT32 PC
7. XP Set checks hardware then continues installation
8. After I press 'ENTER' to install
9. PROBLEM - End User License Agreement cannot be found.
10. When I go to directory c:\$win_nt$.~bt there is no trace of eula.txt file
11. Do I need to copy the whole wxpvol_en\i386 to the new HDD for the
installation to continue to run after reboot?
12. Do I need an unattend file in order to run the whole of the installation
over the network?

Many regards
JEIAW

 

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

Objective:
To install Microsoft Windows XP Professional from over the network

1. My HDD is partitioned and formated with win98 FDISK.exe & FORMAT.com

How large of a partition? I suggest using a 4G FAT32 partition and
letting Windows Setup extend it after converting to NTFS.

2. I boot with network boot disk
3. I connect to i386 share on distribution server
4. I run winnt.exe
5. XP setup then copies files to FAT32 HDD
6. Restart FAT32 PC
7. XP Set checks hardware then continues installation
8. After I press 'ENTER' to install
9. PROBLEM - End User License Agreement cannot be found.

10. When I go to directory c:\$win_nt$.~bt there is no trace of
eula.txt file
11. Do I need to copy the whole wxpvol_en\i386 to the new HDD for
the installation to continue to run after reboot?

No, you do not. I don't, anyway.

12. Do I need an unattend file in order to run the whole of the
installation over the network?

No, you can do the installation manually. But an unattend.txt file
would speed things up, since it avoids making you answer questions
interactively.

- Pat
http://unattended.sourceforge.net/

 

[Johan Arwidmark]

You arent using the i386 from a MSDN partner DVD are you?
(they are built slightly different than a normal cd image and this can
cause the eula error)

regards
Johan Arwidmark

Windows User Group - Nordic
http://www.wug-nordic.net

 

[Patrick J. LoPresti]

Yeah, even with smartdrv, there is a 45-60 second delay on that screen
(see http://support.microsoft.com/?id=296814).

Glad to hear you got it working.

- Pat