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I created an unattended cd. It works great, except for my $OEM$ folder (parallel to my i385 folder) which contains my $$ folder, which contains my system32 folder. Inside my system32 folder I have oeminfo.ini, oemlogo.bmp, and autoit3.exe. These 3 items are NOT being copied to my system32 folder on my pc. I read a few other posts, and tried to move the $OEM$ folder inside the i386 folder, but this didn't work. I also tried to change my winnt.sif file to say OemPreinstall=Yes, and this made my unattended setup stop and prompt for info which it is not supposed to do, so I turned it off. I tried this twice to make sure and both times it stopped the install with a prompt, which I do not want during an unattended install. So my question is how do I get the setup to copy over those 3 files in my system32 folder on the cd to the pc? Is it something stupid like the fact that I have to use System32 with a capital S? Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

[PaulIA]

Don't things like this just drive you crazy?

It sounds like you may have a couple of problems here. First, your $OEM$ folder needs to stay outside of the i386 folder. I think we have some people on this board that are confused about this. If you need clarification on this, take a look at the OEM Reference at the Unattended site.

Second, you probably are missing some entries in your WinNT.sif file. You do need to have OEMPreinstall=Yes in this file. If the system stops and is asking for additional information, it's because you didn't supply that information in the WinNT.sif file. Take a look at WinNT.sif Reference on the Unattended site for more information.

Here is an example of what my WinNT.sif file looks like:

[Branding]
  BrandIEUsingUnattended=Yes

[Data]
  AutomaticUpdates=Yes
  AutoPartition=1
  MsDosInitiated=0
  UnattendedInstall=Yes

[GuiUnattended]
  AdminPassword=xxxxxxxx
  AutoLogon=Yes
  OEMSkipRegional=1
  OemSkipWelcome=1
  TimeZone=20

[Identification]
  JoinWorkgroup=WORKGROUP

[Networking]
  InstallDefaultComponents=Yes

[Proxy]
  HTTP_Proxy_Server=localhost:8080
  Proxy_Enable=1
  Proxy_Override=localhost
  Use_Same_Proxy=1

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

[UserData]
  ProductID=xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx
  FullName="John Doe"
  OrgName="ACME Corporation"
  ComputerName=ACME1

Hope this helps.

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ok, after looking at your winnt and the guide I realized that I need to have OemSkipWelcome=1, not 0. When you have oempreinstall set to yes, that's the way it has to be otherwise the install will hault. I will give it a try now. Thanks.