Unattended installation

[Guest JR]

Saludos!! I wish to make an Unattended installation of WinXP in my laptop but

it hasn't a floppy drive. :( what options do i have? what can i do? may be

with an external USB floppy drive? or... ¿? please help me

JR

[Guest John John]

Re: Unattended installation

 

JR wrote:

> Saludos!! I wish to make an Unattended installation of WinXP in my laptop but

> it hasn't a floppy drive. :( what options do i have? what can i do? may be

> with an external USB floppy drive? or... ¿? please help me

> JR

 

You should be able to use a USB floppy but not all USB floppies work

during the text mode setup portion:

 

A connected USB floppy disk drive does not work when you press F6 to

install mass storage drivers during the Windows XP installation process

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/916196

 

The same issue may affect the answer file if it is supplied on an

unsupported USB floppy drive. Use a supported USB drive for the answer

file. Another method is to use a network share point or to create

(burn) an XP CD with the answer file on the cd.

 

John

[Guest Nepatsfan]

Re: Unattended installation

 

In news:50F268D1-5180-4461-B6A1-66A1E4243A99@microsoft.com,

JR <JR@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> Saludos!! I wish to make an Unattended installation of WinXP

> in my laptop but

> it hasn't a floppy drive. :( what options do i have? what can

> i do? may be

> with an external USB floppy drive? or... ¿? please help me

> JR

 

Create your answer file, but instead of saving it as

unattended.txt save it as winnt.sif . Put winnt.sif in the I386

folder on your XP installation CD.

 

For more info, do a Google search for winnt.sif. Here's an

example of an article you'll find.

 

Create a Basic Unattended Setup

http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/view/web/7/

 

Good luck

 

Nepatsfan