From: Doug <do...@gm...> - 2012-11-03 15:50:42
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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 <Joh...@mf...> 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. > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Got visibility? > > Most devs has no idea what their production app looks like. > > Find out how fast your code is with AppDynamics Lite. > > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219671;13503038;y? > > http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html > > _______________________________________________ > > unattended-devel mailing list > > una...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel > > > > 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/una...@li.../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 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Got visibility? > Most devs has no idea what their production app looks like. > Find out how fast your code is with AppDynamics Lite. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219671;13503038;y? > http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html > _______________________________________________ > unattended-devel mailing list > una...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-devel > |