Re: Win7 progress?

On 4/27/10 7:21 PM, "Doug" <[email protected]> wrote:

> So, I've been playing with Win7 for a couple of days, and reading lots of web
> pages and unattended code.  I just wanted to capture a couple of the things I
> found out.  This is not meant to be an exhaustive list, just some
> thoughts/observations.
> 
> 1) New unattended file format.  Used to be unattended.txt, now is an XML-based
> file.  So that means that install.pl <http://install.pl>  will have to change
> to write the new format, perhaps read defaults differently, etc.
> 
> 2) Different file structure on install disk.  Several of the files that
> install.pl <http://install.pl>  looks for do not exist any longer.  i386
> directory gone.  Etc.
> 
> 3) Can't run Win7 setup from current boot disk process.  (I think this is
> true.  Hacking the nt5install script to try is beyond my abilities.)  Should
> the new process require PXE (hope not)?  Use WAIK to create a WinPE disk that
> contains and can run install.pl <http://install.pl> ?  Is it possible to
> create a small partition on the new PC hard drive, copy the Win7 install files
> from the network, create the unattended, boot to that partition to install,
> then get rid if it post-install?
> 
This is true since it doesn¹t use a DOS to run from, but rather a full WinPE
environment.
> 
> 4) UAC (by default can't run todo.pl <http://todo.pl>  from Z: without warning
> popups) and other concerns on applications.
> 
This might be able to be worked around the same way as is posted in the
System Administration With Perl book from O¹Reilly.
> 
> I'm sure there are others, but those are some of the major changes I've found
> so far.  I hacked around 1 (hand created Autounattended.xml bundled with my
> install media), 2 (hacked up install.pl <http://install.pl>  and WinMedia.pm),
> and 4 (joined the domain during the install so that \\ntinstal\install was a
> trusted share) so I could try various things out.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Doug

I¹ll be interested in your progress since your work will make my own Windows
7 migration later this year easier :)

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Gary L. Greene, Jr.
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