WDS unattended install of XP

January 3, 2008

Is there anyway for the computer name, first, and last name to be entered

manually before the install of the image using WDS. With RIS it was done by

editing the custom.osc file like this.

First name: <INPUT NAME="FIRSTNAME" SIZE=63 MAXLENGTH=63><BR>

Last name: <INPUT NAME="LASTNAME" SIZE=63 MAXLENGTH=63><BR>

Computer name: <INPUT NAME="MACHINENAME" SIZE=63 MAXLENGTH=63><BR>

Directory service path: <INPUT NAME="MACHINEOU" MAXLENGTH=512><BR>

</FORM>

Now, I know I can do this unattended by placing a sysprep.inf in the

$oem$\$1\sysprep folder but the problem is, it uses the name you put in the

inf file but I want to use a different computer name so I don't have to

change it after it images along with the user names. With RIS I could enter

this info before loading the image and let it go unattened. Could someone

please tell me how to do this with WDS for 2003 server.

January 4, 2008

RE: WDS unattended install of XP

Have you looked at the Computer tab in the WDS console. You can build a

regular expression which will assign a name to a machine during the build

process.

WDS Docs

daveg

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