Hi,
I’m currently developing a standard workstation for the company I work for. I have several options to start the install of Windows XP, among which is the unattended install through the network with a good old DOS boot disk. As you probably know, the XP install requires several reboots (I counted four), which messes up my plans as I want to insert the boot disk, switch the PC on, and walk away, to only come back after a few hours and find that XP (and all other applications) has been installed fully. My question therefore is, does anyone know of a way to automatically bypass booting from a floppy when a floppy is in the floppy drive.
For example, I can do a check to see whether a specific file exists. If true, the PC boots from c, if not, the PC boots from floppy. Maybe there is a tool available somewhere (which I haven’t found) that can do this.
I’m not quite sure if this is actually possible. An alternative way is to halt the batch just before calling winnt.exe. Anyone knows how to halt the batch file and more importantly, start it again once the floppy has been removed (automatically)
Thanks for your time
Guy