With the special CDs from DELL you usually don't get a real installation CD. what you have there is more likeley a "Disaster Recovery" CD. This CD probably has some unattended features already built-in, so that it installs the system to your DELL to your harddisk as if you bought it new. With some tweaking, you should be able to use those as installation CDs as well, but I have forgotten what you have to tweak. I can check that out, but it'll take some time, as I can't remember where I have left that info...
You can try to compare the contents of the i386 Folder of the DELL CD with the i386 Folder of a normal Installation CD. - Markus > >Many thanks for writing this nifty program. > >Works great for my MSDN subscription of W2K. No problems at all. > >Doesnt work so well for my Dell OEM Win2K+ SP1 CD that ships(used to) with > >Dell PC's. > >I am using the linuxboot option. The machine boots from the CD, i can >mount the Samba shares where Windows resides, the install proceeds >further, i partition the drive and input all the other info like name, >organization, code etc. > >The install then copies to the C:\netinst, the 2 files from Z: > >It then runs the "winnt" command, but nothing happens after that, it just > >drops back the shell with Z:\os\win2kd\i386 as the prompt. > >I have copied the i386 folder under the "win2kd" dir. > >Am i completely missing something with the OEM install ? What kind of info > >can i provide to help debug this problem. > >Thanks for all your help, >-- >/dev/null > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
