John said:
I have Dells and they all have to be reformatted and 2k
reinstalled. How can I use the 2K CD and a floppy with
Winnt.sif to create a installation floppy to install these
machines Semi-automatically.
You need to create your WINNT.SIF file and put it on a formatted floppy disk
(in the root directory).
Boot the computer from the Windows 2000 CD.
As soon as the boot process starts, insert the floppy.
The format of WINNT.SIF is explained in "The Windows 2000 Guide to
Unattended Setup".
Have a look on MSDN:
http://tinyurl.com/6n1i
An example WINNT.SIF file follows.... You should probably view it in a
fixed width font.
;WINNT.SIF
;Windows 2000 Unattended Answer File
;Created for XXX on 20th November 2003 by Mark
[Unattended]
DriverSigningPolicy = Ignore ;Don't prompt about unsigned drivers
KeyboardLayout = "United Kingdom" ;Select the UK keyboard layout
OemSkipEula = Yes ;Don't display the Licence Agreement
Repartition = Yes ;Repartion and reformat the disk
UnattendMode = ReadOnly ;Prevent changing of the answers
;provided here
[GuiUnattended]
AdminPassword = * ;Blank Local Administrator password
AutoLogonAccountCreation = No ;Don't create a new local user
OEMSkipRegional = 1 ;Don't show Regional Settings page
OEMSkipWelcome = 1 ;Don't show the Welcome page
TimeZone = 085 ;GMT / BST
[UserData]
FullName = "Full Name"
OrgName = "Organisation Name"
[Display]
BitsPerPixel = 32 ;32-bit colour
Xresolution = 1024 ;at 1024 x 768 resolution
Yresolution = 768
[RegionalSettings]
InputLocale=0809:00000809 ;English (United Kingdom)
Language=1 ;English
LanguageGroup=1 ;English
SystemLocale=00000809 ;United Kingdom
UserLocale=00000809 ;United Kingdom
[TapiLocation]
AreaCode = 1999 ;01999 is a OFCOM test code and is
CountryCode = 44 ;never used. Therefor, a code will
Dialing = Tone ;always be dialed.
[Networking]
InstallDefaultComponents = YES ;TCP/IP, Client for MS Networks etc
[Identification]
;DomainAdmin = ;Account used to add computer to
;DomainAdminPassword = ;the Windows 2000 domain
JoinDomain = MYDOMAIN ;Join the MyDomain domain
;Put the computer account in the MyDomain\London_Test\Computers OU
MachineObjectOU = "OU=Computers,OU=London_TEST,DC=MyDomain,DC=com"
[Data]
AutoPartition = "1" ;Required by Setup. Do not change.
MsDosInitiated = "0"
UnattendedInstall = Yes
Hope this helps....
Mark
