On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 03:47, Pablo Manzanera wrote: > I think an interesting fourth alternative would mix the first and third > approach. That would be to have the Linux Disk prepare the drive, > access the network, and then copy the files to where they need to go in > order to skip the first step of the Microsoft setup process, reverse > engineering the work done by winnt.exe and winnt32.exe. > > The txtsetup.sif is another name for the unattend.txt file. The BOOT.INI > points to a BOOTSECT.DAT file inside the $WIN_NT$.~BT folder. If the > files are copied correctly and the boot sector is set, I think the > machine would be tricked into continuing with the second phase of > installation. winnt.exe (when booted via dos/windows9x) will delete those directories. the bootsect.dat is machine specific, so you can trick only the machine where you grabbed these files. if we were able to generate nt boot sectors this approach would work. there is a tool available called ms-sys (http://ms-sys.sf.net) which can create dos/windows9x boot sectors / mbr. does anyone know a program which can create nt boot sectors ? wolfgang -- Wolfgang Borst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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