I have a Win7 unattended going. Well, kind of.
I boot from a USB drive with an unattended xml file on it, which does the
basic install and then starts a modified "apps only" type of install after
windows is done.
I have to create/modify the unattended xml by hand every time - it has my
computer name, domain, etc, as well as the main unattended bat file tor
run. I also create a user-pc specific .bat file that contains all of the
todos for the user and pc type.
It's been a couple of years since I set it up, and I know I ran into
several problems, mainly around running scripts from a share that was in my
windows domain and a computer that wasn't - or vice versa. I created a
special account in my domain to do the install with. And I ended up
breaking the pre.bat into two parts with perl being installed between
them.
That part of my unattended xml looks like:
<FirstLogonCommands>
<SynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
<Order>1</Order>
<Description>Running appsonly</Description>
<CommandLine>cmd /C start /wait net use Z: \\ntinstall\install
mypass /user:mydomain\myuser</CommandLine>
</SynchronousCommand>
<SynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
<Order>2</Order>
<Description>Running appsonly</Description>
<CommandLine>cmd /C z:\bin\pre1.bat</CommandLine>
</SynchronousCommand>
<SynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
<Order>3</Order>
<Description>Running appsonly</Description>
<CommandLine>cmd /C Z:\scripts\perl.bat</CommandLine>
</SynchronousCommand>
<SynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
<Order>4</Order>
<Description>Running appsonly</Description>
<CommandLine>cmd /C z:\bin\pre2.bat</CommandLine>
</SynchronousCommand>
<SynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
<Order>5</Order>
<Description>Running appsonly</Description>
<CommandLine>cmd /C z:\bin\todo.plUserSpecificFile.bat</CommandLine>
</SynchronousCommand>
<SynchronousCommand wcm:action="add">
<Order>6</Order>
<Description>Running appsonly</Description>
<CommandLine>cmd /C z:\bin\post.bat</CommandLine>
</SynchronousCommand>
</FirstLogonCommands>
I tried the WinPE boot then install from a network share yesterday for the
first time, and it worked great. No PXE boot is required.
Here's my thoughts on how this could work:
User has to make a WinPE boot disk and boot from it.
Map \\ntinstall\install to Z:
>From the PE environment run a script from Z: that builds an unattended xml
file based on user input and saves it somewhere on Z:
Run setup from the Z: drive using the unattended that was just built.
I have a volume license and used that to install from. I don't know if
there are any differences that would stop this approach with OEM or retail
media.
I'm not very experienced with windows scripting, and but I imagine that
several of the things I do in the unattended (join domain, set local
admins, rename pc) could be done after the install via todos.
Thoughts?
Doug
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 4:04 AM, Johan Ho <johan...@mf.no> wrote:
> Den 21.09.12 02:34, skrev Juanjo Pablos:
> > Hi,
> > I just saw that win7 had become Nº1 in the operations Systems market
> share.
> >
> http://marketshare.hitslink.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10
> >
> > I do not see myself with enough time to accomplish this task. So I beg
> > for some help on this matter.
> >
> >
> >
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> I also recently started trying to get unattended installation of Windows
> 7 to work. I found this old post on the unattended info mailing list:
>
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/unattended-info@lists.sourceforge.net/msg09116.html
>
> I got as far getting the WinPE 3.0 boot image up and running, but I need
> to focus on other projects right now. Anyways, it did sound like they
> got it to work.
>
> Johan Ho
>
>
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