UNATTENDED INSTALLATION.

[alistair_drozario]

Hi Folks! Can any one tell me how to install Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional UNATTENDED.

[khattam_]

You will need to create an unattended Setup Disk. nLite from the link below can help you create ISO of Unattended setup of Windows 2000 from your CD. You can burn it to a CD and install......................
I've tried it.................... It rocks.
You should thank Nuhi (the author of nLite) who is taking time to make such a great app..................... and giving it for free............

Download Link:
http://nuhi.msfn.org/download.html

[aadipa]

nLite does a good job but it was not made to create unattended setup, but instead to remove components from Windows setups.

Here is what u can do to do the stuff manually.
There is a file named Winnt.sif

It works like answer file. You can put ur answers to diffrent prompts while installing Windows2000/NT

Here is my Winnt.sif

[Data]
	Autopartition = 0
	MsDosInitiated = 0
	UnattendedInstall = Yes

[Unattended]
	UnattendSwitch = No
	OemPreinstall = Yes
	OemSkipEula = Yes
	FileSystem = *
	WaitForReboot = No
	NoWaitAfterTextMode = 1
	NoWaitAfterGUIMode = 1
	TargetPath = Windows
	DriverSigningPolicy = Ignore
	NonDriverSigningPolicy = Ignore
	Hibernation = No

[SystemFileProtection]
	SFCQuota = 0

[SystemRestore]
	MaximumDataStorePercentOfDisk = 0

[GuiUnattended]
	TimeZone = 190
	OEMSkipRegional = 1
	OemSkipWelcome = 1

[Components]
	Indexsrv_system = Off

[UserData]
	ProductKey = "XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX"

[RegionalSettings]
	Language = 0409

[Networking]

[Identification]
	JoinWorkgroup = WORKGROUP


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    Title1="Maxthon - Best IE Based Browser.url"
    URL1="www.maxthon.com"
    Title2="ThinkDigit Forum.url"
    URL2="http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum"
    Title3="Tech-Arena.url"
    URL3="http://www.tech-arena.com"
    Title4="Yahoo! Mail.url"
    URL4="http://mail.yahoo.com"
    Title5="GMail - Google Mail.url"
    URL5="http://gmail.google.com"
    Title6="Gutenberg.url"
    URL6="http://www.gutenberg.net"
    Title7="Daemon tools.url"
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    URL10="http://wordweb.info"
    Title11="DAP.url"
    URL11="http://www.speedbit.com"
    Title12="Zip Genius.url"
    URL12="http://www.zipgenius.it"
    Title13="PDF Creater.url"
    URL13="http://www.pdfcreator.de.vu"
    Title14="SequoiaView.url"
    URL14="http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview"
    Title15="SwitchOff.url"
    URL15="http://yasoft.km.ru/eng/switchoff/"
    Title16="Ghost Installer.url"
    URL16="http://www.ginstall.com/"
    Title17="Hackman Hex Editor.url"
    URL17="http://www.technologismiki.com/hackman/"
    Title18="WinImage.url"
    URL18="http://www.winimage.com/"
    Title19="Winamp.url"
    URL19="http://www.winamp.com"
    Title20="Linux Solved.url"
    URL20="http://www.linuxsolved.com"
    Title21="Cabel Nut.url"
    URL21="http://www.cablenut.com/"
    Title22="No-IP Client.url"
    URL22="http://www.no-ip.com"
    Title23="Mumbai University.url"
    URL23="http://www.mu.ac.in"
    Title24="Indiatimes.url"
    URL24="http://www.indiatimes.com"
    Title25="Rediff.url"
    URL25="http://www.rediff.com"

[URL]
    Home_Page=http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum
    Search_Page=http://www.google.com/search?q=%s

It just asks for User name, organization and computer name. And at end waits for creating users.

You can try this GUI program to create ur Winnt.sif file
http://www.yeek.com/~qmsfn/winntsif/1.1a.rar
[needs .NET runtimes]

Just put ur winnt.sif into the i386 folder in Win2000 CD. And create a normal bootable cd.

To get full list of what options u can put in Winnt.sif, read
http://unattended.msfn.org/global/reference.htm
Although the page is for WinXP u can use most of it for Win2K too.

To Create the most perfect Winnt.sif file download deployment tools for Win2000 from microsoft site.
Then read ref.chm and run setupmgr.exe