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Rick Watson

11 Dec 2009 11 Dec '09

3:50 p.m.

Good morning listers, I have a system which needs rebuilt and I have access to an xp pro cd. What is the best way to install without sighted assistance? I want to reformat the drive and start over. Thanks Rick

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John G. Heim

11 Dec 11 Dec

2:21 a.m.

Well, I don't know if its the best way but the way I install Windows XP is via the unattended sourceforge project. See: http://unattended.sourceforge.net/ It is kind of a lot to set up but once you have it, it's real easy. I don't even worry about getting viruses because if I suspect any problem, I just re-install Windows. You just boot from a CD and come back 40 minutes later to a fresh install. You can even automatically re-install your software. I have it automatically re-install nvda, foobar, etc. The one thing I never figured out is how to automatically install jaws, much less re-authorize. But I did set it up to automatically re-install nvda so after the 40 minutes I come back to a talking computer. You need a samba server and access to DNS though. I already had all that when I started setting it up so it was easy for me. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Watson" To: "Blind sysadmins list" Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 9:50 AM Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] unattended install of windows xp

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Good morning listers, I have a system which needs rebuilt and I have access to an xp pro cd. What is the best way to install without sighted assistance? I want to reformat the drive and start over.

Thanks Rick

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White, Matt

5:04 p.m.

I use NLite http://nliteos.com It works well for XP and 2003. Matt

Jackie McBride

6:29 p.m.

& then there's NLite, which I dearly love. On 12/11/09, White, Matt wrote:

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I use NLite

http://nliteos.com

It works well for XP and 2003.

Matt

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romance's prince

27 Dec 27 Dec

6:42 p.m.

hello friends: how can I build windows xp pro unattended setup without deleting hard disk partitions? I've c, d, and so on.. xp need to be installed on c partition, but I don't want to lose all data and make one partition. also how can I package another software to make full cd to the office I work in? thanks beero. ----- Original Message ----- From: John G. Heim To: Blind sysadmins list Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 4:21 AM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] unattended install of windows xp Well, I don't know if its the best way but the way I install Windows XP is via the unattended sourceforge project. See: http://unattended.sourceforge.net/ It is kind of a lot to set up but once you have it, it's real easy. I don't even worry about getting viruses because if I suspect any problem, I just re-install Windows. You just boot from a CD and come back 40 minutes later to a fresh install. You can even automatically re-install your software. I have it automatically re-install nvda, foobar, etc. The one thing I never figured out is how to automatically install jaws, much less re-authorize. But I did set it up to automatically re-install nvda so after the 40 minutes I come back to a talking computer. You need a samba server and access to DNS though. I already had all that when I started setting it up so it was easy for me. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rick Watson" To: "Blind sysadmins list" Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 9:50 AM Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] unattended install of windows xp

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Good morning listers, I have a system which needs rebuilt and I have access to an xp pro cd. What is the best way to install without sighted assistance? I want to reformat the drive and start over.

Thanks Rick

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Greg B.

11 Dec 11 Dec

7:22 p.m.

I am a fan of N lite. Greg B. -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Rick Watson Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 10:51 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] unattended install of windows xp Good morning listers, I have a system which needs rebuilt and I have access to an xp pro cd. What is the best way to install without sighted assistance? I want to reformat the drive and start over. Thanks Rick _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins

David Mehler

8:25 p.m.

Hello, For Xp installs I use NLite. I've not heard of this unattended project when i get some time i'll check it out, that would be very helpful! Dave. On 12/11/09, Greg B. wrote:

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I am a fan of N lite.

Greg B.

-----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Rick Watson Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 10:51 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] unattended install of windows xp

Good morning listers, I have a system which needs rebuilt and I have access to an xp pro cd. What is the best way to install without sighted assistance? I want to reformat the drive and start over.

Thanks Rick

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John Heim

12 Dec 12 Dec

4:13 p.m.

So what the project at http://unattended.net does is boot from a linux CD and then it does a network install of Windows in a DOS emulator. I made a speakup kernel for the boot CD so I have a talking Windows XP install. You could have it ask all the same questions a typical Windows install asks but I generally just put everything in the unattended config file. I actually started working on a script that would have built an iso for a bootable CD that did the same thing. The idea was that you'd install this package on your linux machine, put your Windows XP CD in the drive, run a script and it would build an iso image that you could use to do a talking install. But when I found out that Windows 7 wasn't going to allow you to install from a Dos command line, I gave up. No point in going through all that work for an obsolete version of Windows. It might not have worked anyway because even with using compressed file systems, it might not have fit on a CD. I think it probably would have worked though because if you gzip a Windows install CD, it get pretty small. On Dec 11, 2009, at 2:25 PM, David Mehler wrote:

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Hello, For Xp installs I use NLite. I've not heard of this unattended project when i get some time i'll check it out, that would be very helpful! Dave.

On 12/11/09, Greg B. wrote:

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I am a fan of N lite.

Greg B.

-----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Rick Watson Sent: Friday, December 11, 2009 10:51 AM To: Blind sysadmins list Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] unattended install of windows xp

Good morning listers, I have a system which needs rebuilt and I have access to an xp pro cd. What is the best way to install without sighted assistance? I want to reformat the drive and start over.

Thanks Rick

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David Mehler
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Jackie McBride
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John Heim
Rick Watson
romance's prince
White, Matt