At 08:20 AM 4/10/2006, Hugh Gundersen typed:
Recently I have been installing XP pro on a few rebuilds and it's a
pain when I have to wait for
Time Zone, Language, Currency etc. choices.
Never bothered my previously but I now feel it's becoming a
chore. I see a lot about unattended
installs and wondered how to effect this.
<http://unattended.msfn.org/unattended.xp/> & if you Google
"unattend" you'll find many more resources.
Another quirk I find , and perhaps Wayne can answer this, why does
BartXP or XPPE boot a machine
from the CD yet a USB Hdd that has windows pulled from another
computer, or come to that any Hdd
with an XP installation from another computer always FAILS to boot?
XpPe is designed to run without a swapfile & has many drivers
included while the registry is built on the fly by PEBuilder but not
so when copied from a HD. Either of these could stop you in your
tracks when trying to boot from an external HD. If you want to boot
on many different systems then install Bart or XpPe to the external
HD. Bart has even included a plugin for installing to HD. I don't
know if Bart's HD plugin hard codes the drive letter or not when
installing to HD as it was NOT designed for external HDs but rather
to as a replacement for Recovery Console. Can one burn an ISO to a
external HD via Nero or some other burning app ? ;-) FWIW I still
have NOT been able to get BartPE to run from a USB thumb drive at all
& would think that the issues would be very similar. If Nero could
burn to an external usb [non-optical] drive I would've done that to
install XpPe to a USB thumb drive. :-(
The forums at 911cd.net
<http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?s=1a2165bb7125c4ddf6fcdd00da4e1b7a&showforum=30>
are very good source for more info if you can wade thru the silly
questions. I find the nOObs annoying because it seems that almost
none of them learn how to use the search feature & most of their
questions have been answered literally years ago but it's still
useful. Maybe I'm getting cantankerous in my old age. Ok, so there
is no maybe about it, so there. :-P
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Wayne D. Johnson
Ashland, OH, USA 44805
<http://www.wavijo.com>
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