After covering this in class, myself and another student got adventurous, and did some searching on our own. We both independently found the same information same site, too that allowed us to expand much further on the procedure outlined here.
What can be done unattended is quite amazing. Change the drive letters used here as applicable. This file contains the information you would normally enter during the graphical based portion of the actual Windows XP installation. Changing or adding to these settings also allows for automated installs on different computers.
The same disks could be used to automate installation on an AMD machine, and then get put right into an Intel based system. Double clicking on the Setupmgr. The Wizard will save your answers in a text file, which you will eventually put on that floppy disk.
He has just a small business, and only has a couple computers. Right now, he just wants to make this disk for his office PC. Setup will hang at that point of installing WinXP until you enter this information. In the following page, you will enter your Windows XP key. It was somewhat crude and Microsoft never developed it after it's initial release.
Luckily, I can provide you with a floppy disk image from which you can create the network boot disk. The disk has support for 3COM's 3c90x line of network adapters, and changing or adding network card support is an easy process using a batch file. Read the Readme. Another possibility, if you have access to Ghost Enterprise or Ghost , is to use Ghost to create a network boot disk.
Ghost makes the process very easy and supports many network cards. The network boot disk, for this installation scenario, does 3 things. It connects the PC to a domain, maps a drive to a share on the source server and starts the unattended install. Nothing else is done on the floppy. It will no longer be needed. The rest of this unattended installation is done from the Win server. That is what we will be talking about next. The autoexec. If you do, then it calls :: netcard. DOS :: doesn't support deep redirection so you can't map to a folder under :: a share, e.
Please try echo remapping the drive or reboot the PC and try again. This folder is what the network boot disk will connect the target PC to.
In this folder are the following files and folder: Note: If you would like to download a. It is made by Symantec and comes with Norton Ghost. This is done by calling reboot. The target PC reboots, and again connects to the source server and looks for the flag. If this file is found, then the PC's hard drive has been formatted and the batch program jumps down to start the Windows XP Pro install using unattend.
The yn. It uses an errorlevel to check which was pressed. See the YN. The unattend. The following line checks to see if the PC was rebooted :: by checking for the flag. If the flag. You will be asked to enter a unique computer name at the beginning of the XP install, and the computer will be added to the network. The command inside XDrive2.
This diskpart command will change the drive letter of your DVD drive to H as you fixed. So for the batch file XDrive2. Update the system drivers to the latest available online. Have it for installing System drivers from a batch file as.
Use the silent mode Install as. From a batch file, Use the Silent mode install as. Download Microsoft Silverlight v5. Organize the above gathered installation files in folders as we wish for burning to the installation DVD along with XP Setup files.
Then create a few batch files such that each calling two or more of the gathered installation files as you wish. First batch file can be called at first boot after XP Install with a series of commands initiated with a command in cmdlines.
At the end of this batch file, give shutdown command with restart option. At the start of this batch file, make a registry "RunOnce" entry to call the 2nd batch file after system restart. Similarly run every batch file after restart fresh. Note: The "RunOnce" registry entry to call batch files automatically at system start up will be deleted automatically. Sometimes if it doesn't happen automatically, you may take care to delete it using a regedit command in every batch file.
Setup applies your settings, notifies you that it is finalizing installation, and then reboots the computer. Upon reboot, the computer's screen resolution is configured.
The computer attempts to access the Internet to access the Microsoft website to complete the product activation stage. You may delay activation for up to 30 days, although delaying activation causes you to suffer through intermittent activation reminders.
You are also asked to register your copy of Windows XP when activating the software; however, registration is purely an option. The Welcome screen appears and then the Windows XP desktop. If you defined more than one user at the time that you assigned the Administrator's password, you are prompted to select a user and to enter the user's password, if one was assigned. Activation period The period of time before you absolutely have to activate Windows is 30 days.
You have just completed a full, manual installation of Windows XP Professional from scratch. In a typical installation, you would next join a workgroup or domain, install additional applications, restore data from backup, and customize the desktop to meet your needs.
Previous page. Table of content. Next page. Attended Installation Process You can run an attended installation process for either an upgrade or a clean installation of Windows XP Professional. Exam Alert Strange product keys The product key doesn't exist. When you have all the preceding items in hand, you're ready to install Windows XP Professional.
For the following, we are using the process for a bootable CD-ROM, rather than for startup disks or a network installation: 1. The password for the Administrator account is for a local user account on the computer running Windows XP.
You do not need to make this password the same as the one for the domain administrator, and you can leave the password blank. Be careful when assigning different passwords for the Administrator account on different computers during a large deployment because you will have problems if you lose the local Administrator's password.
Exam Alert Activation period The period of time before you absolutely have to activate Windows is 30 days. Authors: Melissa Craft , Don Poulton.
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