Unattended Installations

Brief Instructions on how to create a Windows unattended disk that allow you to:

• Put in the disk
• Boot from disk
• Make some coffee
• Come back and OS is installed

Important:

If you make an Unattended disk for 32-bit, and your physical PC where you are installing WAIK on is 64-bit then you cannot make a disk for 32-bit. You can however use something like Oracle VM Virtualbox and install Windows 32-bit virtually.

Windows 7 - 10

1. Install WAIK: (Remember to use the WAIK relevant to your OS version)
2. Copy Windows onto the local harddrive
3. Open Windows System Image Manager
4. File > Select Windows Image > Browse to location of copied OS
5. Select the desired Image
6. Generate the catalog
7. File > New Answer File
8. Click the plus by Components
9. Follow the below

• Server 2012
• Server 2008 R2
• Windows 7 64-bit
• Windows 7 32-bit

1. Save the autounattend.xml file to the root of the copied OS
2. Use ImgBurn to Write a Bootable ISO

1. Click Advanced > Bootable Disk > Make Image Bootable
2. Boot Image: \boot\etfsboot.com

Server 2012

Server 2008 R2

Windows 7 64-bit

Windows 7 32-bit

Windows XP

Instructions:

1. Download and install nLite
2. Copy contents of Windows XP Disk to Harddrive
3. Open nLite
4. Locate the copied Windows XP files
5. Integrate updates and drivers if you want
6. At Unattended section

1. Fully automated
2. Enabled
3. XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX (please change when activating Windows)
4. Automatic
5. Turn off Firewall
6. Skip OOBE
7. Turn off Hibernate
8. System Restore Service Enabled

1. At Users section

1. Add an account
2. Username: admin
3. Password: 1234567
4. Local Group: Administrators

1. At Owner and Network ID

1. Computer Name: windowsxp
2. Workgroup: WORKGROUP
3. Full Name: Admin
4. Organization: Organization

1. At Regional section

1. Language: English (South Africa)
2. Localization: English (United States)
3. Keyboard: US
4. Location: South Africa
5. Time Zone: (GMT +02{00) Harare, Pretoria

1. At Automatic Updates

1. Download and notify of installation

1. Tweek the disk if you want
2. Start the Process and close nLite
3. Edit [copied xp location]I386winnt.sif

1. under [Unattended] put: "Repartition = "Yes""
2. under [Data] put: "AutoPartition = 1"

1. Open nLite again and go straight to Bootable ISO
2. Make a Bootable ISO with nLite
3. Use ImgBurn to write ISO to disk.