On 4/27/10 7:21 PM, "Doug" <doug...@gmail.com> wrote: > So, I've been playing with Win7 for a couple of days, and reading lots of web > pages and unattended code. I just wanted to capture a couple of the things I > found out. This is not meant to be an exhaustive list, just some > thoughts/observations. > > 1) New unattended file format. Used to be unattended.txt, now is an XML-based > file. So that means that install.pl <http://install.pl> will have to change > to write the new format, perhaps read defaults differently, etc. > > 2) Different file structure on install disk. Several of the files that > install.pl <http://install.pl> looks for do not exist any longer. i386 > directory gone. Etc. > > 3) Can't run Win7 setup from current boot disk process. (I think this is > true. Hacking the nt5install script to try is beyond my abilities.) Should > the new process require PXE (hope not)? Use WAIK to create a WinPE disk that > contains and can run install.pl <http://install.pl> ? Is it possible to > create a small partition on the new PC hard drive, copy the Win7 install files > from the network, create the unattended, boot to that partition to install, > then get rid if it post-install? > This is true since it doesn¹t use a DOS to run from, but rather a full WinPE environment. > > 4) UAC (by default can't run todo.pl <http://todo.pl> from Z: without warning > popups) and other concerns on applications. > This might be able to be worked around the same way as is posted in the System Administration With Perl book from O¹Reilly. > > I'm sure there are others, but those are some of the major changes I've found > so far. I hacked around 1 (hand created Autounattended.xml bundled with my > install media), 2 (hacked up install.pl <http://install.pl> and WinMedia.pm), > and 4 (joined the domain during the install so that \\ntinstal\install was a > trusted share) so I could try various things out. > > Thoughts? > > Doug
I¹ll be interested in your progress since your work will make my own Windows 7 migration later this year easier :) -- Gary L. Greene, Jr. IT Operations Minerva Networks, Inc. Cell: (650) 704-6633 Phone: (408) 240-1239
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