Compaq 3000R How to perform unattended NOS installation Using HP Toptools Remo - Page 2

1. unattended installation for W2K AS & NT4 server: This section describes how to create the two disks you need for an unattended installation. Disk 1 prepares the hard drive peripherals and disk 2 prepares the source file copies and launches the unattended installation. The creation of the script file for W2K unattended installation is also described below. The second part of this section describes how to configure your "file" server, what you must change and where. a) Creating the 2 disks required for an unattended installation 1 - Disk 1 prepares the hard drive peripherals For a successful automated installation on a Netserver, you must have at least one free hard drive able to receive the operating system. You have to prepare this drive and create a 2GB FAT16 partition so that "Windows Setup Loader" can access all necessary files. When the server begins to install the OS, there is no way of accessing a network because no drivers are installed, therefore you must copy all the files to the local disk. The first step consists of automating these operations. Let us now create an MS-DOS boot disk (which has more free space than a Win9x boot disk) with the minimum number of programs. It is necessary to have: - Software able to erase all partitioning information from the disk, to create a 2GB FAT16 partition and to activate this partition in order to boot on it (powerful fdisk). - FDISK.COM to erase the Master Boot Record once partitions have been made. - A well-known compiled command, REBOOT.COM, that can make the Netserver shut down and restart automatically. No blocking question should occur on the Netserver console during these operations, because the unattended installation needs to be able to bypass every problem and work unhindered. The following operations (formatting, copying and launching) are only accessible when the server has rebooted, because the partitioning is effective after a warn restart. 2 - Creation of the script file for W2K unattended installation This file is a text mode file and its name depends on the information in the launch script "install.bat". You must therefore copy this file with all the OS source files because AUTOEXEC.BAT will copy it locally on the pre-installed Netserver. ; W2KSRV.INF ; HP Netserver Unattended Installation File ; ; Microsoft Windows 2000 Server, Advanced Server ; (c) 1994-1999 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. ; [Unattended] ; Part of the minimum options required for a fully unattended installation UnattendMode = FullUnattended ; Determine whether the Microsoft license agreement should be prompted or not OemSkipEula = YES ; The path of the source files to be installed OemFilesPath = I:\i386 2