Unattended installation

karson wong

Hi all guy

At the 70-270 Win XP pro installation. The unattended installation seem too much difficult. How can we try to make a practice and did some one had experience? Is this important in the exam? And how can we make it easy to unstand?

agustinchernitsky

Hello, have you tried and read the help file in the deploy.cab file?

The help file there is quite easy and explains all the "deployment" scenarios for WinXP.

Good luck!

Slowhand

There is quite a bit about unattended installations on the test. Of course, I didn't see the words "unattended installation", anywhere. However, it's a very good idea to have some practice with it, and definately understand what everything in the deploy.cab file is, how it works, and why it works. There are specific questions on the end-results of using setup manager, of using sysprep, and the like.

argosstrat

I think the RIS based installations are likely to be the most important ... the other types of installs you can practice/walkthrough using a virtual pc environment ... testing the RIS stuff maybe a bit more tricky though

karson wong

Can you guy tell me how to view the test file of the deploy.cab.

I only working on 70-270 and not yet to go through 2003 server. So I just have workgroup PC in my home. Can I put the XP installation file in one PC then do the unattanded installation on other PC?

TheShadow

.cab files are generally Microsofts form of a zip file. The expand command (look it up in help) will extract or show you what is inside. The shareware WinRAR will also open most MS .cab files.

DapperDan

Using the unattended install is not that difficult. Use setupmgr.exe to create the winnt.sif file. I have three "Lab" PC's and use VMware (server) to create my own network (2003 DC, 2003 member server, 2 XP clients). I have installed both 2003 server and XP more times than I can count. I can't imagine NOT using unattended install. I recall a couple of questions on that too.

sharptech

When you create the winnt.sif file, what do you do with this file to be able to start the install?

sprkymrk

sharptech wrote:

When you create the winnt.sif file, what do you do with this file to be able to start the install?

Place winnt.sif file on a floppy disk, insert the Windows installation CD (boot from the CD) and it will automatically search for and use a winnt.sif file on the floppy disk. It must be named winnt.sif.

Danman32

Woe to the one who doesn't have a floppy on his system. MS dropped the ball on that one.

sharptech

Alright ill give it another shot- I remember last time I tried I got an error.

nel

does anyone know where to place the winnt.sif file on the cd instead of on a floppy disk? because if you can place it on the cd then i see little point using it with a floppy and besides most of the dells at work dnt come with floppies now so it would be a big help if someone knew? would you simply place the 3 files from the setup manager it creates into the i386 folder or onto the root of the cd?

w^rl0rd

CD-ROM (winnt.sif): http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314459/en-us

Sysprep (sysprep.inf): http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;302577

Network (unattend.txt): http://support.microsoft.com/kb/136153/EN-US/