I have a unattended win xp where you you put the win.sif file on the floppy,my question is anyone know how to put this same file on the windows cd itself so you want need the floppy disk,I mean where do I put the file to make it work.I try the i386 folder but this did not work.any ideals thanks

Hey mate, I personally haven't tried the XP unattented setup but I have done the 2000 one, and you should just be able to midify the command and tell it where the win.sif file is located. Here is the command that I used for a network install of windows 2000 pro. Z:\WINNT /S:Z:\ /U:Z:\ANSWER.TXT /UDF:G4-WS01,ANSWER.UDF /T:D Z:\ - The source path to the file winnt.exe. /S:z:\ - Specifies the source path for the setup files /u::z\ANSWER.TXT - specifies an unattended install and the path to the answer file. /UDF:G40WS01,answer.udf - This will be the name of your computer. /T:D - The drive to install windows to. ****Z: was a mapped network Drive and you would change the ANSWERS.TXT to win.sif or what ever the file is called. Hope this helps

I will try this will let you know if it works thanks zeb

Hey zeb I went away and made an unattended setup file and while I haven't tested it I look at the commands that you use with winnt32.exe to do the unattented install and this is what I came up with to make it work from a cd. The only thing is you need to be at a command prompt window to type it in. But from your intial post I figure you have already came up with an idea to get around that. D:\I386\winnt32 /s:D:\I386 /unattend:D:\winnt.sif /copysource:lang D: is the cd rom drive and replace the D:\winnt.sif with the path to your .sif file

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