[sfonvill]

Is it possible to create an unattended installation of Windows XP which would be usable on multiple systems where the only question during install would be what the hostname should be?

[Aaron]

Yes, in winnt.sif:

Change FullUnattended to DefaultHide
Remove ComputerName=

[sfonvill]

There is just one downside to defaulthide; when the page where the computername should be entered is displayed there is also the option to change the administrator password, instead I now use read only, which doesn't have this issue

This post has been edited by sfonvill: 26 July 2005 - 08:35 AM

[oioldman]

I do this an din winnt.sif have,

left FullUnattended alone
removed ComputerName=

and it does ask for the computername and you can't change the other options, eg. admin password

[sfonvill]

I'll try that, but with ReadOnly the page is displayed without the option to change the password (it's greyed out), also I vaguely recall that when I used FullUnattended an autogenerated hostname is used.

Basically, 'I'll look into it and report back'

[sfonvill]

Well, it works as you said , but instead of simply displaying the page it now displays it after the error that a computername is missing , so I think I'll stick with ReadOnly .