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Guest
I am having a devil of a time deploying XP home on our machines.
This is the situation. We have 6 Dell computers (each with its own XP Home
license) that are used for public access. We want the total setup on each
machine to be identical.
I have prepared one machine from scratch with everything setup the way it is
needed. I created an answer file with setupmgr leaving the product key (and
some other items) blank, then sysprep the machine (and make an image after
shut down). However, with XP Home, I am apparently not allowed to use
Mini-Setup. At any rate, when the machine is restarted, I never get any
prompts to enter the product key or any other information for that matter.
All I get is a message that states "The system is not fully installed. Please
run setup again." I am aware of article KB320279 that is supposed to address
this problem, but working through the steps, I find at step 3, there is no
System file in %SystemRoot%\repair\. Besides, creating a parallel
installation of XP in another partition (which does not exist in the desired
setup) is problematic at best.
I am looking for the root cause of this problem, so that when I distribute
this image, that I can start up, enter the requisite information, tweak the
installation and get the machine back in service.
There seems to be a dearth of information about the sysprep process and
getting indentical installations down on multiple machines.
I need help here.
Thanks!
Pat Clifford
This is the situation. We have 6 Dell computers (each with its own XP Home
license) that are used for public access. We want the total setup on each
machine to be identical.
I have prepared one machine from scratch with everything setup the way it is
needed. I created an answer file with setupmgr leaving the product key (and
some other items) blank, then sysprep the machine (and make an image after
shut down). However, with XP Home, I am apparently not allowed to use
Mini-Setup. At any rate, when the machine is restarted, I never get any
prompts to enter the product key or any other information for that matter.
All I get is a message that states "The system is not fully installed. Please
run setup again." I am aware of article KB320279 that is supposed to address
this problem, but working through the steps, I find at step 3, there is no
System file in %SystemRoot%\repair\. Besides, creating a parallel
installation of XP in another partition (which does not exist in the desired
setup) is problematic at best.
I am looking for the root cause of this problem, so that when I distribute
this image, that I can start up, enter the requisite information, tweak the
installation and get the machine back in service.
There seems to be a dearth of information about the sysprep process and
getting indentical installations down on multiple machines.
I need help here.
Thanks!
Pat Clifford