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I'm by no means a windows specialist, but I recall you can include drivers on the floppy disk too? Sorry, something went wrong. Everything works beside winnt. In the I folder included in the image it works. You can look up the meaning for the different options here. The crucial point was in creating the floppy image which contains the answer file.

I first tried to create it using OSX's hdiutil, but the setup did not recognize the answer file. Using this image the installation would finally recognize the file and setup the system without user prompt. Adobe Photoshop 7 is a bit different in how your personal settings get put in place.

In the folder you copy the files over into, there will be a file named Abcpy. Open this file with Notepad. The file is very simple, and merely installs the User name, Company name, and serial number into two places in the Registry. Name it register. Note; Not all of the items in my start.

These will pause for your input during the running of the start. I find it easier to spend a moment filling in the blanks during the whole Windows installation, than hunting for the CD I have the program saved to. It just saves a bit of time, and disk swapping afterwards. It can be found here. Open winnt. Delete any copies of these files you find as Windows XP has an up-to-date version of Windows Installer 2. This might gain that extra 1 or 2 MB you need for that last little app. Longer, and much slower, but also an option what I did , would be to test your files by burning them onto rewritable media , and use an old, spare small hard drive to test install onto.

Using rewritable media will allow you to reclaim any flawed disks later on by erasing them. To burn your disk and make it bootable, you will need a pair of things.

A 3rd Party application such as Nero or Roxio will be needed. Download ISO Buster. Extract the. Install it using the defaults and choose your preference of a desktop shortcut or Quick Launch icon. Run ISO buster. In the window that opens, click Bootable CD in the left pane. Next, right or double click Microsoft Computing. Finally, select Extract Microsoft Corporation. After all of the preparation, checking, double checking, researching your apps, switches, batch files, triple checking at least!

Other programs will be similar to how this is done in Nero. Roxio , about as popular, differs slightly between their own versions 5 and 6. Click File , and then New… from the menu bar at the top left. The New Compilation window opens. Both procedures are the same afterwards. On the Boot tab, select the button for Image file. Select the image file, and then click Open. Next, select the Enable Expert Settings button. Below it, in the Kind of emulation drop down, select No Emulation.

Below that, change the 1 in Number of loaded sectors to a 4. This step is extremely important, as missing this will result in the disk not being bootable!!

Next, move to the ISO tab at the top, and set everything to match the picture below!! Label is somewhat optional, but I usually go in and name my CD. This will open the File Browser window as seen below. This window consists of four panes. Simply drag and drop the entire contents of the fourth pane in one fell swoop into the first leftmost pane;.

Finally, in the row of 16 icons just above the four panes, select the Burn icon 9th from the left. If you use Roxio versions 5 or 6 , check these pages out at The Elder Geek. Roxio Easy CD Creator 5.

The people who compiled all of this information at www. Email Brian. Tested with Phenom II X6 T overclocking… I got in touch with a friend and he agreed to let me take one of his cooling pots for a spin. Aaron Schradin of LN2Cooling. This pot is usually meant for the purpose of running under LN2 and LHe4. This is seen in the many AMD world record breaking overclocking attempts, which can all be seen over at amdblackops. However I will be playing around with the dry ice performance of this pot, which has mostly gone overlooked until now.

Includes Overclockers. See it first here! You must be logged in to post a comment. News Ticker. You can use Autologon in [GuiUnattended] above to login and automatically run these commands. Creating the Network boot disk Creating the Network boot disk that will boot your target PC and connect it to the Windows domain could be the hardest part of the unattended install. If you tried to do it from scratch, you might never get it done. Not that the program was very good to begin with. It was somewhat crude and Microsoft never developed it after it's initial release.

Luckily, I can provide you with a floppy disk image from which you can create the network boot disk. The disk has support for 3COM's 3c90x line of network adapters, and changing or adding network card support is an easy process using a batch file. Read the Readme. Another possibility, if you have access to Ghost Enterprise or Ghost , is to use Ghost to create a network boot disk. Ghost makes the process very easy and supports many network cards. The network boot disk, for this installation scenario, does 3 things.

It connects the PC to a domain, maps a drive to a share on the source server and starts the unattended install. Nothing else is done on the floppy. It will no longer be needed. The rest of this unattended installation is done from the Win server. That is what we will be talking about next. The autoexec. If you do, then it calls :: netcard. DOS :: doesn't support deep redirection so you can't map to a folder under :: a share, e.

Please try echo remapping the drive or reboot the PC and try again. This folder is what the network boot disk will connect the target PC to. In this folder are the following files and folder: Note: If you would like to download a. It is made by Symantec and comes with Norton Ghost. This is done by calling reboot. The target PC reboots, and again connects to the source server and looks for the flag.

If this file is found, then the PC's hard drive has been formatted and the batch program jumps down to start the Windows XP Pro install using unattend. The yn. It uses an errorlevel to check which was pressed. See the YN.

You can can simultaneously deploy the operating system on multiple clients from one or more remote locations. Links About Us Advertise Hide pages - This option does pretty much the same thing as the fully automated with the exception of letting you see the Setup Wizard.

Once again, after you have got this down you can play with the other options. If you wanted to install from a network share, you would choose to create a distribution folder. The distribution folder option gives you the flexibility to add other files as well, such as drivers not found on the t he Windows XP CD. We have to check this now because we will not be seeing it during the install.

Put in what you most commonly use here. If you try to over do it you may run into problems problems later. Remember that running a monitor at a refresh frequency that it does not support can damage the monitor.

What time zone do you live in? Put your Product Key here. Have you ever lost your Product Key? You can't install without one. Saving it to the answer file will automatically put it in for you. You can also have the setup automatically generate the name by ticking the box at the bottom. If you plan to use the exact same setup on multiple computers then you would add their names here as well.

When you enter multiple names during during the setup process, Setup Manager automatically generates the Uniqueness Database File UDF that is required to add those unique names to each computer during setup. If the administrator imports names from a text file, Setup Manager converts each name to a Uniqueness Database File.



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