Unattended setup (few questions)

[flekso]

What *can* be done during unattended setup:

Destination drive partitioning,
Installing to a 2nd physical drive,
Changing default 'special' folders location ?

Is there a book covering the topic ?

Thanks.

 

[Oli Restorick [MVP]]

Hi there

The drive partitioning options are somewhat limited in current products.
It's basically a choice of "leave alone", or "wipe the disk and create a
single volume".

As for partitioning info, you have an option called "autopartition", or the
choice is to let the user select at install-time.

You can change the Windows systemroot directory, Program Files, Documents
and Settings and probably more.

The best overall resource is probably the Windows 2000 Professional Resource
Kit or, I imagine, the XP Pro Resource Kit (haven't read it, personally).
If you look on the CD, there's actually a file called deploy.cab, which
contains a lot of documentation.

Once you've learnt the basics, there's some excellent work being done in
this area over at http://www.msfn.org/. Check out their forums and their
how-to guides. There are some brilliant tips and tricks there.

My, somewhat outdated, guide is at http://www.willowhayes.co.uk/windows2000/
.. Patrick LoPresti is diong some great stuff over at
unattended.sourceforge.net.

Hope this helps

Oli

 

[Gerry Hickman]

What *can* be done during unattended setup:

Quite a lot! Some of it depends on what you are trying to achieve, the
deployment method (CD-ROM, Network), and whether you want a "pure"
Microsoft solution, open source tools, non-open source free tools, paid
for tools etc. It would be much easier if you just said what you want to do?

Destination drive partitioning,

If you use CD-ROM, you can set an option to be able to manually set up
partitions, even on huge RAID sets with NTFS.

Installing to a 2nd physical drive,

I did this on my home system not long back. I created a disttribution
point on SCSI disk No 1 (my old disk), then connected a new SCSI disk
and used the syspart option to put brand new Win2000 on the new drive
including the boot sector. I then switch over the SCSI ID to point to
the new drive - I can now unplug the old drive if I want to.

Changing default 'special' folders location ?

Yes, but unless you've got a REALLY good reason to do this, I can't see
the point? One reason I can think of, is if you're running a web server
- you don't want WWWROOT on your boot drive.

 

[Robert smit]

allot,

I use often RIS very nice and free util it comes with windows 2000 / 2003
server.

for a HP 360/380 server i made this SIffile

it creates partitions and do config the server.

[data]
floppyless = "1"
msdosinitiated = "1"
OriSrc = "\\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%"
OriTyp = "4"
LocalSourceOnCD = 1

[SetupData]
OsLoadOptions = "/noguiboot /fastdetect"
SetupSourceDevice =
"\Device\LanmanRedirector\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%"

[MassStorageDrivers]
"Adaptec Ultra160 Family Manager Set"=OEM
"Compaq Integrated Dual Channel Wide Ultra2 SCSI Controller"=OEM
"Compaq Integrated Wide Ultra2 SCSI Controller"=OEM
"Compaq Drive Array Controllers"=OEM
"Compaq Smart Array Controllers"=OEM
"Smart Array 5300 Controller"=OEM
"Smart Array 5i, 532, 5312 Controllers"=OEM

[OEMBootFiles]
ADPU160M.SYS
CPQ32FS2.SYS
CPQARRAY.SYS
CPQARRY2.SYS
CPQCISSM.SYS
TXTSETUP.OEM


[Unattended]
driversigningpolicy=ignore
OemPreinstall = yes
oempnpdriverspath= \drivers\nic
NoWaitAfterTextMode = 0
FileSystem = convertntfs
ExtendOEMPartition = 1
ConfirmHardware = no
NtUpgrade = no
Win31Upgrade = no
TargetPath = \WINDOWS
OverwriteOemFilesOnUpgrade = no
OemSkipEula = yes
InstallFilesPath = "\\%SERVERNAME%\RemInst\%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%"

[UserData]
ProductID=product key
FullName = "name"
OrgName = "name"
ComputerName = %MACHINENAME%

[OEM_ADS]
logo=compaq.bmp

[GuiUnattended]
AutoLogon = Yes
AutoLogonCount = 1
OemSkipWelcome = 1
OemSkipRegional = 1
TimeZone = 95
AdminPassword = "password"

[TapiLocation]
CountryCode=31
Dialing=Tone
AreaCode=055
LongDistanceAccess="0"

[RegionalSettings]
LanguageGroup=1
Language=00000413

[LicenseFilePrintData]
AutoMode = PerSeat

[Display]
ConfigureAtLogon = 0
BitsPerPel = 24
XResolution = 1024
YResolution = 786
VRefresh = 60
AutoConfirm = 1

[Identification]
JoinDomain = domain.intern
CreateComputerAccountInDomain = yes
DoOldStyleDomainJoin = Yes

[NetProtocols]
MS_TCPIP=params.MS_TCPIP

[params.MS_TCPIP]
; transport: TC (TCP/IP Protocol)
InfID=MS_TCPIP
DHCP=Yes

[NetClients]
MS_MSClient=params.MS_MSClient

[params.MS_MSClient]
InfID=MS_MSClient

[NetServices]
MS_Server=params.MS_Server

[params.MS_Server]
; service: SRV (Server)
InfID=MS_Server
BroadcastsToLanman2Clients = No

[ServicesSection]

[RemoteInstall]
Repartition = no
UseWholeDisk = no

[GuiRunOnce]
Command0="net use x: \\network01\distributie"



[Networking]
InstallDefaultComponents=No
ProcessPageSections=Yes


[NetOptionalComponents]
DHCPServer=0
DNS=0
snmp=1

[snmp]
accept_communityName=public:read_only, private:read_create
community_name="public"

[Components]
AccessOpt=Off
Appsrv_console=Off
Aspnet=Off
AutoUpdate=Off
BitsServerExtensionsISAPI=Off
BitsServerExtensionsManager=Off
Calc=Off
Certsrv=Off
Certsrv_client=Off
Certsrv_server=Off
Charmap=Off
Chat=Off
Clipbook=Off
Cluster=On
Complusnetwork=Off
Deskpaper=Off
Dialer=Off
Dtcnetwork=Off
Fax=Off
Fp_extensions=Off
Fp_vdir_deploy=Off
Freecell=Off
Hearts=Off
Hypertrm=Off
IEAccess=Off
Iis_asp=Off
Iis_common=Off
Iis_ftp=Off
Iis_inetmgr=Off
Iis_internetdataconnector=Off
Iis_nntp=Off
Iis_serversideincludes=Off
Iis_smtp=Off
Iis_webadmin=Off
Iis_webdav=Off
Iis_www=Off
Iis_www_vdir_scripts=Off
Indexsrv_system=Off
Inetprint=Off
Licenseserver=Off
Media_clips=Off
Media_utopia=Off
Minesweeper=Off
Mousepoint=Off
Msmq_ADIntegrated=Off
Msmq_Core=Off
Msmq_HTTPSupport=Off
Msmq_LocalStorage=Off
Msmq_MQDSService=Off
Msmq_RoutingSupport=Off
Msmq_TriggersService=Off
Msnexplr=Off
Mswordpad=Off
Netcis=Off
Netoc=Off
Objectpkg=Off
OEAccess=Off
Paint=Off
Pinball=Off
Pop3Admin=Off
Pop3Service=Off
Pop3Srv=Off
Rec=Off
Reminst=Off
Rootautoupdate=Off
Rstorage=Off
Solitaire=Off
Spider=Off
Templates=Off
TerminalServer=Off
TSWebClient=Off
Vol=Off
WBEMSNMP=Off
WMAccess=Off
WMPOCM=Off
Wms=Off
Wms_admin_asp=Off
Wms_admin_mmc=Off
Wms_isapi=Off
Wms_server=Off
Zonegames=Off



[OSChooser]
Description ="Windows 2003 Server "
Help ="Remeha Windows 2003 ."
LaunchFile = "%INSTALLPATH%\%MACHINETYPE%\templates\startrom.com"
ImageType =Flat
Version="5.0 (0)"



have fun

robert