Unattended Install Not Completely Unattended

[harryhoudini66]

Hello everyone,

Before I get to my question, I must say that this site is awesome. The information that is found here is just amazing. It is a little intimidating though. I been building, upgrading, fixing computers enough to think I was advanced. However, once I saw the Intermediate and Advanced sections for the Unattended CD it really humbled me. So far, I could only make the Beginner version. I am sure with your help I can get the rest down.

Anyways, here is my question for the time being. I made a basic unattended CD, which works well. However, I still get prompted to enter a bit of information and am hoping you can tell me what I need to change.

After the install, I receive the following prompts:

Welcome to Microsoft XP

Help Protect Your Computer Automatic Updates

Checking for Internet Connection

Register Windows XP

Windows XP Tour

How do I fix this? Is it on the winnt.sif or the OOBEINFO.ini?

Here are both of them.

winnt.sif

OOBEINFO.INI

[JASpurrier3]

"If OemPreinstall in the [unattended] section of Unattend.txt is set to Yes, unattended Setup automatically stops on the Welcome page. To avoid this pause in your factory or testing environment, set OEMSkipWelcome = 1. Do not ship any computer with OEMSkipWelcome = 1. Instead, change OEMSkipWelcome in the [GuiUnattended] section of Sysprep.inf to 0 before delivering the computer to the customer." - from Windows Corporate Deployment Tools

From what I have read, UnattendMode=FullUnattended does not automate MiniSetup if OemPreinstall=Yes. Try using a sysprep.inf.

-JASpurrier3

Edited December 7, 2005 by JASpurrier3

[RayOK]

Welcome to MSFN!

Ahh, sounds like the OOBE. Pretty sure you can disable it through nLite or a few fixes, but I use this method by xenogen: http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=10799

It takes everything out of the OOBE except the user account creation. And when I'm done with that its setup to auto login with the top user. Then finally a registry tweak to disable the auto login, for me.

[harryhoudini66]

Thanks for the reply. I am confused though. I did have that value set already on the winnt.sif file.

[JASpurrier3]

Yes, RayOK is correct, my mistake. I added "UnattendSwitch = Yes" to the [unattended] section in your Winnt.sif below.

;SetupMgrTag
[Data]
	AutoPartition=1
	MsDosInitiated="0"
	UnattendedInstall="Yes"
	AutomaticUpdates=yes

[Unattended]
	UnattendMode=FullUnattended
	OemSkipEula=Yes
	OemPreinstall=Yes
	TargetPath=\WINDOWS
	Repartition=Yes
	WaitForReboot="No"
	UnattendSwitch = Yes

[GuiUnattended]
	AdminPassword=*
	EncryptedAdminPassword=NO
	OEMSkipRegional=1
	TimeZone=4
	OemSkipWelcome=1

[UserData]
	ProductKey=1234-1234-3XK2M-45674-VYPKT
	FullName="User"
	OrgName="None"
	ComputerName=The-Matrix

[TapiLocation]
	CountryCode=1

[Identification]
	JoinWorkgroup=ZION

[Networking]
	InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

[Display]
	BitsPerPel= 16
	Vrefresh= 75
	Xresolution= 1024
	Yresolution= 768

[Shell] 
	DefaultStartPanelOff=Yes
	DefaultThemesOff=Yes

-JASpurrier3

Edited December 7, 2005 by JASpurrier3

[cluberti]

Yeah, RayOK is correct - those are OOBE questions, and wouldn't be asked by default unless you included the oobe inf (which you've done). I suggest a)scripting OOBE entirely, b)using another method (rather than OOBE) to script user creation, or c)use a tool such as nLite to remove as much of the OOBE as you are able.

[harryhoudini66]

Thanks you for your help guys. As I waited for a response I looked at the ref.cfm file and found the change for the oobinfo.ini.

I put this:

[userInfo]

Identity000="NewUser-Admin"

[Options]

IntroOnly=1

Everything worked perfectly on the VM

Edited December 7, 2005 by harryhoudini66

[harryhoudini66]

What does the Unattended Switch do?

[MHz]

What does the Unattended Switch do?

UnattendSwitch

Specifies whether Setup skips Windows Welcome or Mini-Setup when preinstalling Windows XP Home Edition or Windows XP Professional using the CD boot method.

(from Ref.chm)