Unattended Install

[Semaj]

I have many systems with a single disk, single partition configuration
and I want to create an unattended install that wipes out the existing
partition and then creates an NTFS partition and continue on with the
install. The config I tried to use is:

[Data]
Autopartition = 1
[Unattended]
Repartition = Yes

This method does wipe out the partition, recreates it, formats it,
copies files to it, then gives me the following error:

Setup cannot set the required Windows XP configuration information. This
indicates an internal Setup error:
Contact you system administrator.

When I turn off either autopartition or repartition options, I have to
manually delete/create partition but all else works fine. As an aside,
I did use nLite to generate my winnt.sif file.

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[Anando [MS-MVP]]

Hi Semaj,

You may want to go through the following Technet article which outlines Unattended installations
very well:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/Windows/XP/all/reskit/en-us/prbc_cai_tidq.asp

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