help with winnt.sif for unattended install
Hi again everybody, since my post on this subject yesterday I've incorporated drivers using NLite and have further tweaked the winnt.sif. I've pasted below the first part of the current version of my winnt.sif. Could someone in the know have a look at it please and let me know if it looks ok? I've noticed that since incorporating the drivers a couple of lines have been inserted. As I'm not an NLite guru I may have missed out something, or selected something I shouldn't have. As I said in my last post I need to make sure it will only format the c partition, and not the d partition. On the subject of drivers there were two options, text mode and regular pnp. I set it to regular pnp. Was that right? How would I know which to choose? My next question, given that the winnt.sif is ok is arguably, for a blind person the most important, regarding a working sound device, one that will work as soon as windows installs. Although I can incorporate drivers with NLite a lot, if not all sound cards require you to run a setup before the sound card will work. Does anyone know of either a way I can incorporate the setup for my sound card in my winnt.sif, or alternatively know of a sound card, preferably a usb one, that windows xp pro will recognize automatically, or one that only requires a driver. Sorry about all the questions, but I really want to get this unattended thing cracked. All help will be greatly appreciated, John. ;SetupMgrTag [Data] autoPartition=1 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" [Unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes NoWaitAfterTextMode=0 NoWaitAfterGUIMode=1 DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore NonDriverSigningPolicy=Ignore FileSystem=NTFS ExtendOEMPartition=1 Repartition=Yes ConfirmHardware=no KeyboardLayout=Uk TargetPath=\WINDOWS [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=* EncryptedAdminPassword=NO OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=85 OemSkipWelcome=1
On a related note: I've found that a USB headset can really come in handy when the drivers for the internal sound card aren't installed. I'm no Windows expert, my department has somebody else for that, but if sound is not configured on a machine, I've found that plugging a USB headset usually works. I have a CD that starts nvda automatically or I can use a USB thumb drive to start it. This combo of a USB headset and nvda hasn't failed me yet (knock on wood). ----- Original Message ----- From: "john coley" <johncoley@blueyonder.co.uk> To: <Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2008 11:25 AM Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] help with winnt.sif for unattended install
Hi again everybody, since my post on this subject yesterday I've incorporated drivers using NLite and have further tweaked the winnt.sif. I've pasted below the first part of the current version of my winnt.sif. Could someone in the know have a look at it please and let me know if it looks ok? I've noticed that since incorporating the drivers a couple of lines have been inserted. As I'm not an NLite guru I may have missed out something, or selected something I shouldn't have. As I said in my last post I need to make sure it will only format the c partition, and not the d partition. On the subject of drivers there were two options, text mode and regular pnp. I set it to regular pnp. Was that right? How would I know which to choose? My next question, given that the winnt.sif is ok is arguably, for a blind person the most important, regarding a working sound device, one that will work as soon as windows installs. Although I can incorporate drivers with NLite a lot, if not all sound cards require you to run a setup before the sound card will work. Does anyone know of either a way I can incorporate the setup for my sound card in my winnt.sif, or alternatively know of a sound card, preferably a usb one, that windows xp pro will recognize automatically, or one that only requires a driver. Sorry about all the questions, but I really want to get this unattended thing cracked. All help will be greatly appreciated, John. ;SetupMgrTag [Data] autoPartition=1 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes"
[Unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes NoWaitAfterTextMode=0 NoWaitAfterGUIMode=1 DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore NonDriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
FileSystem=NTFS ExtendOEMPartition=1 Repartition=Yes ConfirmHardware=no KeyboardLayout=Uk TargetPath=\WINDOWS
[GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=* EncryptedAdminPassword=NO OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=85 OemSkipWelcome=1
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Hi, I think your filesystem line should be ConvertNTFS and that will convert from either raw unformatted or formatted fat partition to ntfs. As for your sound card issue, what i do is if possible find out what kind of card the target machine has in it, and install those drivers in to my nlite created image. Failing that i've purchased a USB audio device that all is needed is to plug it directly in and i've got sound. Thanks. Dave. -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of john coley Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2008 11:25 AM To: Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] help with winnt.sif for unattended install Hi again everybody, since my post on this subject yesterday I've incorporated drivers using NLite and have further tweaked the winnt.sif. I've pasted below the first part of the current version of my winnt.sif. Could someone in the know have a look at it please and let me know if it looks ok? I've noticed that since incorporating the drivers a couple of lines have been inserted. As I'm not an NLite guru I may have missed out something, or selected something I shouldn't have. As I said in my last post I need to make sure it will only format the c partition, and not the d partition. On the subject of drivers there were two options, text mode and regular pnp. I set it to regular pnp. Was that right? How would I know which to choose? My next question, given that the winnt.sif is ok is arguably, for a blind person the most important, regarding a working sound device, one that will work as soon as windows installs. Although I can incorporate drivers with NLite a lot, if not all sound cards require you to run a setup before the sound card will work. Does anyone know of either a way I can incorporate the setup for my sound card in my winnt.sif, or alternatively know of a sound card, preferably a usb one, that windows xp pro will recognize automatically, or one that only requires a driver. Sorry about all the questions, but I really want to get this unattended thing cracked. All help will be greatly appreciated, John. ;SetupMgrTag [Data] autoPartition=1 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes" [Unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes NoWaitAfterTextMode=0 NoWaitAfterGUIMode=1 DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore NonDriverSigningPolicy=Ignore FileSystem=NTFS ExtendOEMPartition=1 Repartition=Yes ConfirmHardware=no KeyboardLayout=Uk TargetPath=\WINDOWS [GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=* EncryptedAdminPassword=NO OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=85 OemSkipWelcome=1 _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/mailman/listinfo/blind-sysadmins
Thanks Dave. On the sound issue I'm going to adopt the belt and braces approach. I've integrated the drivers, and I'll get a USB sound card and headset. Incidentally, have you ever tried integrating applications into an unattended install? It would be really nice if I could have everything installed in one hit. Ok, the main thing is the windows install, but it would save a lot of messing about afterwards if I could preinstall things. I read something on the MSFN forum concerning preinstallation of Office, but when I tried it didn't work. I probably did something wrong. John. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave" <dave.mehler@gmail.com> To: "'Blind sysadmins list'" <blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org> Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 4:38 PM Subject: Re: [Blind-sysadmins] help with winnt.sif for unattended install
Hi, I think your filesystem line should be ConvertNTFS and that will convert from either raw unformatted or formatted fat partition to ntfs. As for your sound card issue, what i do is if possible find out what kind of card the target machine has in it, and install those drivers in to my nlite created image. Failing that i've purchased a USB audio device that all is needed is to plug it directly in and i've got sound. Thanks. Dave.
-----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of john coley Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2008 11:25 AM To: Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] help with winnt.sif for unattended install
Hi again everybody, since my post on this subject yesterday I've incorporated drivers using NLite and have further tweaked the winnt.sif. I've pasted below the first part of the current version of my winnt.sif. Could someone in the know have a look at it please and let me know if it looks ok? I've noticed that since incorporating the drivers a couple of lines have been inserted. As I'm not an NLite guru I may have missed out something, or selected something I shouldn't have. As I said in my last post I need to make sure it will only format the c partition, and not the d partition. On the subject of drivers there were two options, text mode and regular pnp. I set it to regular pnp. Was that right? How would I know which to choose? My next question, given that the winnt.sif is ok is arguably, for a blind person the most important, regarding a working sound device, one that will work as soon as windows installs. Although I can incorporate drivers with NLite a lot, if not all sound cards require you to run a setup before the sound card will work. Does anyone know of either a way I can incorporate the setup for my sound card in my winnt.sif, or alternatively know of a sound card, preferably a usb one, that windows xp pro will recognize automatically, or one that only requires a driver. Sorry about all the questions, but I really want to get this unattended thing cracked. All help will be greatly appreciated, John. ;SetupMgrTag [Data] autoPartition=1 MsDosInitiated="0" UnattendedInstall="Yes"
[Unattended] UnattendMode=FullUnattended OemSkipEula=Yes OemPreinstall=Yes NoWaitAfterTextMode=0 NoWaitAfterGUIMode=1 DriverSigningPolicy=Ignore NonDriverSigningPolicy=Ignore
FileSystem=NTFS ExtendOEMPartition=1 Repartition=Yes ConfirmHardware=no KeyboardLayout=Uk TargetPath=\WINDOWS
[GuiUnattended] AdminPassword=* EncryptedAdminPassword=NO OEMSkipRegional=1 TimeZone=85 OemSkipWelcome=1
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