I am impressed with unattended. I have had invariable problems with RIS and
off-the-cd installs; Unattended does everything I need it to and more.
I'm woring on my first deployment of Unattended installation on a batch of
Dell GX270 and GX150 systems. But I've run into a few problems.
First, during the initial boot off the floppy or cd images it hangs looking
for a DHCP server. I found this odd because Bart's Boot disk worked and it
uses the same driver. I found that disabling emm386 on the boot floppy solved
the problem for both systems. Booting without emm386 support doesn't seem to
affect the install, so I wonder why it is included when it can sometimes
cause problems. (All the other extended memory managers caused the same
behavior.)
The GX270 works almost flawlessly, except for a few issues I have with the
DirectX update and the sun-jre install.
However the GX150 barely gets started. I'm not sure this is a problem with
Unattend, but the install gets as far as "copying files" and then claims it
can't find the CD or can't copy ftdisk.sys. If I skip ftdisk.sys (the first
file it tries to copy) it is able to copy some, but not many, files.
It happens like this:
Boot from floppy, reformats drive to 4GB.
Reboot from floppy, starts WinXP Pro (VLP) setup and copies files.
Reboot from HDD, copies more files and then "Setup is checking your disk",
completes
Reboot from HDD, "Setup is checking your disk", completes
Reboot from HDD, "Setup can not copy ftdisk.sys, make sure the CD is in the
drive"
I think it has to do with the way setup is converting the drive to NTFS, but
I haven't been able to pin it down yet.
Any ideas? Is this a known problem?
unattend.txt
--
; Answer file for WinXP unattended setup
[_meta]
fdisk_lba=1
fdisk_cmds="fdisk /clear 1;fdisk /pri:4000;fdisk /activate:1"
fdisk_confirm=0
format_cmd="format /y /z:seriously /q /u /a /v: c:"
replace_mbr=1
top=base.bat
middle="spybot.bat;sun-jre.bat"
edit_files=0
ntp_servers=""
local_admins=""
[UserData]
ProductID=KKM7J-64KB8-XKHKV-R6X6Y-XFBPJ
FullName="Pyramid Administrator"
OrgName="Pyramid Breweries"
ComputerName=*
[Identification]
JoinDomain=pyramidbrew
DomainAdmin=builder
DomainAdminPassword=F00man
[GuiUnattended]
AdminPassword="N0va*s"
EncryptedAdminPassword=NO
OEMSkipRegional=1
OemSkipWelcome=1
TimeZone=004
AutoLogon=YES
[Unattended]
UnattendMode=DefaultHide
FileSystem=ConvertNTFS
ExtendOemPartition=1
OemSkipEula=Yes
OemPreinstall=Yes
UnattendSwitch=Yes
OemPnPDriversPath="gx270\audio;gx270\nic;gx270\video"
[Data]
AutoPartition=1
MsDosInitiated="0"
UnattendedInstall=Yes
[Components]
iis_common=Off
iis_inetmgr=Off
iis_www=Off
iis_doc=Off
[Display]
BitsPerPel=32
Vrefresh=75
[TapiLocation]
CountryCode=1
[RegionalSettings]
LanguageGroup=1
[Networking]
InstallDefaultComponents=Yes
[Branding]
BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes
[URL]
Home_Page=http://intranet.pyramidbrew.com/index.html
Search_Page=http://www.google.com
[Shell]
DefaultStartPanelOff=Yes
DefaultThemesOff=Yes
--
Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard.
Atom Powers
Systems Administrator
Pyramid Brewery
206.682.8322 x251
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