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#21 User is offline   GreenMachine 

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Posted 18 May 2004 - 06:54 AM

Ahhh ... once again an ignored problem goes away! Glad you got it figured out. Been a while since I tried the SILENTINSTALL=NO thingy. Dates from the days when I had less faith in the XPCREATOR.


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Posted 24 May 2004 - 02:45 PM

I only want to place the productkey in my winnt.sif file, someone told me that I must set a settin to defaulthide in order to do so. But then (and i've tried this many times) when i install windows xp, at the t-39 stage i get an annoying popup welcome message. How do I turn that off?

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Posted 24 May 2004 - 02:49 PM

Never seen that one, either ... Where you gettin' this stuff!
(Screenshots are often helpfull.)

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Posted 26 May 2004 - 08:14 AM

dazkrlauwste, on May 24 2004, 08:45 PM, said:

I only want to place the productkey in my winnt.sif file, someone told me that I must set a settin to defaulthide in order to do so. But then (and i've tried this many times) when i install windows xp, at the t-39 stage i get an annoying popup welcome message. How do I turn that off?

You are really asking this in the wrong place as this isn't a XPCREATE matter really....you'll find more info on this in the rest of the main forum...try searching for one thing and browse Here!!

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Posted 31 May 2004 - 04:38 PM

GregorV, on May 17 2004, 02:44 PM, said:

Hi GreenMachine,

it pops up claiming about wrong parameters.
It wants: /quiet /passive /uninstall /norestart /forcerestart /l /n /o /f or /integrate:path
Same with 828026

Oh, I forgot to mention that I only see this with SILENTINSTALL=NO in the XPCreate.ini

Gregor

Edit:

Hi GreenMachine,

Sorry, forget this about the two MP hotfixes.
This was my fault - the reason was 17778 which needs to be shifted to GUIRunOnce.
So - nothing to do.

Gregor

I'm getting this error also, WindowsMedia9-KB837272-x86-ENU.exe is in SVC-HF1 and kicks up with "command line syntax option error" but if I look, the package has an icon instead of the default one. Perhaps the version I have isn't the right package? I'll look at the one on the download list (I manually downloaded all mine)

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Posted 31 May 2004 - 04:40 PM

I see it now...

WindowsMedia9-KB837272-x86-ENU.exe
and
WindowsMedia9-KB837272-ENU.EXE

one is the windows package and the other is the one that works with xpcreate/silent install

Ignore my post :)

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Posted 31 May 2004 - 04:48 PM

In any event, welcome to MSFN!

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Posted 02 June 2004 - 11:12 PM

You might want to try adding in the following line in [Unattended] on your .sif

DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore

that is for problems with drivers during install

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Posted 09 January 2008 - 09:27 PM

Hello I see this post is old just wanted every one to know WINNT.SIF needs to be in ANSI encoding to work right

This article was previously published under Q304305

SYMPTOMS
When you are performing an unattended Windows 2000 installation by using a Winnt.sif file, you may receive the following error message:
Line 1 of the INF file is invalid.
Setup cannot continue. Press any key to exit.
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CAUSE
This issue can occur if the Winnt.sif file was created by using an encoding scheme other than ANSI. The Winnt.sif file does not work if it is encoded with any of the following encoding formats:
Unicode
Unicode Big Endian
UTF-8

This post has been edited by AZGUNS: 09 January 2008 - 10:10 PM


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