[tonymathis]

My unattended install never completes. On first reboot it goes directly to the windows loading screen then to the windows setup screen then reboots and does the same again. I'm sure it's something stupid. Please Help !!!



; Generated by nLite 1.0 RC3

[Data]
Autopartition = 1
MsDosInitiated = 0
UnattendedInstall = Yes
OemDrivers = OemInfFiles

[Unattended]
UnattendMode = FullUnattended
UnattendSwitch = Yes
OemPreinstall = Yes
OemSkipEula = Yes
Repartition = Yes
FileSystem = NTFS
TARGET = /WINDOWS
WaitForReboot = No
NoWaitAfterTextMode = 1
NoWaitAfterGUIMode = 1
DriverSigningPolicy = Ignore
NonDriverSigningPolicy = Ignore
Hibernation = No

[OemInfFiles]
OemDriverFlags = 1
OemDriverPathName = "%SystemRoot%\OEMDIR"
OemInfName = "viamach.inf","viaagp1.inf","viaidexp.inf","cmaudio.inf","sm56acl.inf","hpf840k.inf","itch.inf","nv4_disp.inf","lh2kplus.inf"

[Display]
Xresolution = 1024
Yresolution = 768
BitsPerPel = 32
Vrefresh = 85
AutoConfirm = 1

[SystemRestore]
MaximumDataStorePercentOfDisk = 5

[GuiUnattended]
AutoLogon = Yes
AutoLogonCount = 5
EncryptedAdminPassword = No
AdminPassword = "XXXXX"
TimeZone = 020
OEMSkipRegional = 1
OemSkipWelcome = 1

[Components]
Indexsrv_system = Off

[UserData]
ProductKey = "XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX"
ComputerName = SQUEALER
FullName = "Tony Mathis"
OrgName = "Mathis Transportation"

[RegionalSettings]
LanguageGroup = 1
SystemLocale = 00000409
UserLocale = 00000409
InputLocale = 0409:00000409

[Networking]
InstallDefaultComponents = Yes

[Identification]
JoinWorkgroup = TONYLAN


My CD directory structure does not look correct to me. Here are the files and directories on the CD.
win51ip.SP2
WIN51IP
WIN51
BOOTIMG.BIN
BOOTCAT.BIN
boot.bin
Last Session.ini
Last Session_u.ini
/cmpnents
/I386

I also have a custom winntbbu.dll.

Obviously I'm using nLite.

This post has been edited by tonymathis: 11 December 2005 - 08:57 AM

[MCT]

how r u testing? if in vmware ?

if in windows ?

did u remove SATA, SCSI drivers? r u do u have the drivers being installed?

if not sounds like thats your prob, i removed that but forgot 2 slipstream my drivers & windows just sat @ the bootscreen never loaded

[-Anton-]

This probably won't resolve tonymatis's situation, but I have run into a somewhat different scenario: at T-39 or T-37 the setup would stop doing things and just hang in there, occasionally swapping the billboard messages and nothing else. As the actual setup is done by a detached process, it means this process is dying for whatever reason. As it turns out, the most frequent reason is running out of memory. It appears that unattended setup takes a lot more memory than regular one. I have just tested my new unattended setup disk in a 128MB virtual machine, and it died at T-37. Increased memory to 256MB, and bingo - it went OK.

[tonymathis]

MCT, on Dec 3 2005, 01:35 AM, said:

how r u testing? if in vmware ?

if in windows ?

did u remove SATA, SCSI drivers? r u do u have the drivers being installed?

if not sounds like thats your prob, i removed that but forgot 2 slipstream my drivers & windows just sat @ the bootscreen never loaded

Yes VMware
Yes in Windows XP pro
Yes removed scsi drivers and yes install via bus master drivers

What about the CD structure ? I've compared it to my original XP CD and it seems to be missing some things. SETUP.EXE for example.

This post has been edited by tonymathis: 11 December 2005 - 08:58 AM