Need help with Unattended Install.

[Kardon Coupé]

Hello,

I have set up a floppy with all my details on for unattended re-installs,
when I do a freshen up every 6 to 12 months, but here is my question, if you
do a unattended, but forget to delete the partition, or format etc, you end
up with 2 copies of Windows, in a dual boot format (I actually found Windows
installed one on C, and one on D), I would like to be able to set up a
floppy disk to format my c drive, then the unattended part kicks in? is this
possible? or because WinXP uses the boot from CD in the BIOS, it won't work?
or is there a way to change the unattended.txt to take this into account, or
am I barking up the wrong tree and will have to do everything by hand?

Regards.

P.s. if this is the wrong newsgroup, I do apologise, and can you point me in
the right direction.

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I have set up a floppy with all my details on for unattended
re-installs, when I do a freshen up every 6 to 12 months, but here is
my question, if you do a unattended, but forget to delete the
partition, or format etc, you end up with 2 copies of Windows, in a
dual boot format (I actually found Windows installed one on C, and
one on D), I would like to be able to set up a floppy disk to format
my c drive, then the unattended part kicks in? is this possible? or
because WinXP uses the boot from CD in the BIOS, it won't work? or is
there a way to change the unattended.txt to take this into account,
or am I barking up the wrong tree and will have to do everything by
hand?

You need to edit your unattend.txt or winnt.sif to repartition the drive for
you...

I suggest looking through some of your options here:

http://unattended.sourceforge.net/
and/or
http://unattended.msfn.org/
and/or
http://www.appdeploy.com/
and/or
http://www.nu2.nu/

 

[Oli Restorick [MVP]]

It's perfectly possible.

To make your own unattended CD, take a look at the one I wrote for Windows
2000 at www.willowhayes.co.uk/windows2000 (add /custom.doc for the same
document in Word format) and interpret it along with
http://bink.nu/xpbootcd/

The guys at www.msfn.org have also done great work in this field and have an
active community going on that site.

Regards

Oli