unattended install without a floppy?

[Brian]

Here at my office we use a winnt.sif on a floppy to deploy our desktop
machines. It works awesome, and I think it's a Godsend.

The problem is laptops. Most of the time laptops force me to swap CD and
floppy, so there's no way I can use the floppy winnt.sif method to install
XP. I know how to burn XP CDROMs. I made an XP CD with the winnt.sif in
the root, which apparently isn't being read by the install. Is there any
way to accomplish an unattended install completely from CD like this?

TIA!

-Brian

 

[Oli Restorick [MVP]]

As Hawkens says, it needs to go into i386.

I documented a method I used (and still use) for Windows 2000 at
www.willowhayes.co.uk/windows2000/custom.doc . Also take a look at Bart's
PE Builder at www.nu2.nu, which looks very interesting to me.

Oli

 

[Kandice Eckhoff]

Does your install include any service packs or xp
updates? I'm trying to figure out how to make an
integrated installation and not having any luck. Thanks
in advance for any help you could offer.
Kandice