I have about 30 2k boxes to upgrade to XP over the next few days. I have decided to use the unattended install for XP.

I have created the distrbution point and all the files are copied locally just fine. Here is the problem though.

I inserted the disk and XP setup went fine, the unattended.txt was read and the install went without any type of information needed from me. Although, I wanted to do an upgrade to XP. The unattended simply used the same partition, and made the system a dual boot. So of course when I loaded the box onto the domain, and went into it, it had none of the programs installed etc.

So here is the question:

How do I get unattended install to do an automatic upgrade of the system?


Here is my current unattended.txt file (edited for security)

Any Ideas as to why it didn't update the current OS?

(or ways to improve this?)
Thanks,
xmad



;SetupMgrTag
[Data]
AutoPartition=1
MsDosInitiated="0"
UnattendedInstall="Yes"

[Unattended]
UnattendMode=FullUnattended
OemSkipEula=Yes
OemPreinstall=Yes
TargetPath=\WINDOWS

[GuiUnattended]
AdminPassword=*********
EncryptedAdminPassword=Yes
OEMSkipRegional=1
TimeZone=35
OemSkipWelcome=1

[UserData]
ProductID=*****-*****-*****-*****-*****
FullName="Name"
OrgName="Name"
ComputerName=box_name

[TapiLocation]
CountryCode=1

[SetupMgr]
DistFolder="share"
DistShare=xpshare

[GuiRunOnce]
Command0="rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /in /n \\server\GPSLaser"

[Identification]
JoinDomain=MYDOMAIN

[Networking]
InstallDefaultComponents=No

[NetAdapters]
Adapter1=params.Adapter1

[params.Adapter1]
INFID=*

[NetClients]
MS_MSClient=params.MS_MSClient

[NetServices]
MS_SERVER=params.MS_SERVER

[NetProtocols]
MS_TCPIP=params.MS_TCPIP

[params.MS_TCPIP]
DNS=No
UseDomainNameDevolution=No
EnableLMHosts=Yes
AdapterSections=params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1

[params.MS_TCPIP.Adapter1]
SpecificTo=Adapter1
DHCP=No
IPAddress=172.16.x.x
SubnetMask=255.255.255.0
DefaultGateway=172.16.x.x
DNSServerSearchOrder=172.16.x.x,172.16.x.x
WINS=No
NetBIOSOptions=0