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by brett

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I would like to learn more about installing OS and specific software from an unattended installation boot disk. I have some ideas but I am not sure if they are even possible.

I would like to be able to open a new PC from the box, put in a boot disk, and after the pc starts get a command prompt asking for the computer name and domain. Behind the scene, over a network, a fresh installation of Windows 2000 installs with specifc customizations as well as a few other specifc customized software titles. Currently, we are using Ghost over our network to install OS images, but we are looking to install a fresh OS on each PC.

How is all this accomplished? I know this possble. What are some ideas or insightful resources.

Thanks

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by zlitocook

If you are using Windows NT or better you can go to the Microsoft website and down load some great scripts to use and modify.
http://support.microsoft.com/search/
look for scripts.
You should be able to setup a floppy or cd to auto load the system and any needed programs with out any intervention from any one. And when its done search the MS web site for patches and apply them.

by djent

MS has preinstall utilities available. This works well if you have a limited variety of hardware configurations, you would need to edit the script for each HW variation. If you have a wide variety of configs this becomes impractical.

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