A good rule of thumb is to unplug any storage from the local machine that is not needed during an install.
 
Many's a tech has wiped out their own data or worse anothers.
 
I only leave the System drive connected.
 
Barry
----- Original Message -----
From: Brent Harding
To: Blind sysadmins list
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:17 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] NLite with JFW

OK, I haven't tried System Access to go, as it may work properly. The main idea works if you use something like easyvmx.com to configure an empty VMWare setup and use player to install it. It will probably complain about activation in 30 days as I just wanted to test the disk's functionality that way so I don't make my machine useless until I get a sighted person to finish it. Will I need to physically unplug my external drive I use for backup of my data and downloads so unattended doesn't reformat it? I can't seem to find the winnt.cif file that NLite created to tell what it will really do to maybe tweak it a little.
 
----- Original Message -----
From: christophermcmillan@hotmail.com
To: Blind sysadmins list
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] NLite with JFW

Dear Brent:
 
Well I will have to look at again with JFW 8 and 9.  I was using with WE 6.1 and ZT 9.1.  I thanks for heads up. 
 
Chris McMillan
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From: Brent Harding
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 3:57 PM
To: Blind sysadmins list
Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP

Yep, NLite is your friend. The only trouble with it is how to remove stuff you don't want installed, JFW doesn't speak the state of the items in the list, checked or unchecked. My system might need a reformat pretty soon, I just wonder how to best get my drivers in to the install disk so I have working sound.
 
----- Original Message -----
From: Christopher McMillan
To: Blind sysadmins list
Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 2:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP

Dear Barry:
 
Here is a product I was introduced to by my CISCO colleges'
 
Both of these products will generate the Unattended install and burn the ISO image to your desired media.  I used these tools to complete an installation to VM Workstation 6.02 to allow for AT testing with SP1 for VISTA and SP3 for Windows RC2. 
 
http://www.vlite.net for unattended VISTA Installations
 
nLite - Deployment Tool for the bootable Unattended Windows ...
nLite 1.4.1. 2007.12.12. More and more people started to report that setup ... nLite 1.4 Final. 2007.11.04. Here is the final version to finish this series ...
www.nliteos.com/
 

Sincerely,
 
Christopher McMillan, CIO
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Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 3:04 PM
Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Unattended XP

Hi Folks,
 
I've created several of these in the past.
 
I'm getting a bit lost with Nero v7 though.
 
When you get to the point when you copy your XP disc files to the ISO Panel?
 
What ISO Panel?
 
I've attached the file I've always worked from.
 
I'm stuck at the section reading,
 
"

Locate the folder C:\XP\CD-ROOT

 

Select everything in the folder and copy it to the ISO compilation panel."

 

This is on page 4.  The UI's changed that much in v5 I'm getting a bit lost.

 

Anyone help or even poitn me to instructions on how to do this using Nero 7?

 

A brief google yealded nothing useful.

 

Thanks,

Barry.

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