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| Thread ID: 32624 | 2003-04-24 04:22:00 | Unattended Windows XP Pro setup fails - ProfilesDir | agent (30) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 138410 | 2003-04-24 12:14:00 | It must be late. When in doubt, RTFM - or at least the unattend Word document within the deploy cabinet file. ProfilesDir Value: "<path to profile folder>" Default: "%systemdrive%\Documents and Settings" Specifies the location of Windows 2000 profiles. This parameter is only valid on clean installations of Windows 2000 and is ignored during upgrades. |
Merlin (503) | ||
| 138411 | 2003-04-24 12:15:00 | Damn it must be late . . . . | Merlin (503) | ||
| 138412 | 2003-04-24 23:36:00 | > Oh dear, that's the second time I've posted a password without thinking . At least it's encrypted, eh? > Oh crap, my full name too . You're an idiot! :D Only Merlin and Graham L would have read every word in that lot so if you had said nothing no one would have noticed and gone looking for them . Now everyone who reads the forum will be reading everything! :^O "School holidays are sooo entertaining!" |
Susan B (19) | ||
| 138413 | 2003-04-24 23:48:00 | Yes, well..... *cough*... Anyway, it turns out there were two contributing problems. One was the partitions, and last night I did an attended install, which worked, booted up, attempted backing up data from an NTFS drive where I had no permissions whatsoever, discovered that, in fact, that data was already backed up on my larger partition (silly me), rebooted into PartitionMagic Rescue Disk mode, formatted ARIES, reformatted it, then shut down for the night, knowing what the second problem was.... ...it was that bloody Zip drive I'd installed as the Primary Slave... never used to cause problems, but it was being assigned as D:, moving INSIGNIA to E:. This morning, removed the IDE and power cable of the Zip drive (after removing only the power one and finding the computer froze at boot up), and started an unattended install... which completed successfully about 20 minutes ago! Yay! Even though I haven't checked where the Documents and Settings folder is! I should go and do that. |
agent (30) | ||
| 138414 | 2003-04-25 00:12:00 | Therefore it is possible to do it using an upgrade disk but not an upgrade installation . I c . I'm not even going to ask why the Zip drive was installed on the primary channel and not the secondary . Or why you never mentioned it before . Going by the earlier posts, you may find it beneficial to purchase the manuals for MSCE study since unattended installations are covered in some depth . Also, as others have asked, Active Directory is covered in greater depth . Even MS recommend plan, plan, plan install and alter with care . ---------------- If you only tell half a story, only expect half an answer |
Merlin (503) | ||
| 138415 | 2003-04-25 13:10:00 | Oh that was a shocker that was :D | -=JM=- (16) | ||
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