Re: Win7 progress?

On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:19 AM, Meier, Jye R. <[email protected]> wrote:

>  I’ve also been considering this, and I come to some of the same
> conclusions you do:
>
> 1:  install.pl needs to be modified.  I was thinking of modifying it with
> conditionals at each question so that we can write txt or xml based on the
> install media/os.
>

One thing I didn't get working with my autounattend.xml file is the
partitioning.  No matter what, it would bring up the dialog.  I don't know
if I was doing something wrong in my XML or not.  I  just gave up.  I didn't
look too closely at modifying install.pl yet.

3:  I’ve also considered the separate partition for booting into Windows 7.
> I’m going to try and do it manually first to see what options we have.
>
Good luck - I was going to try that and quickly realized I was over my head
given the amount of time I had to spend on it.


> 4:  I think UAC can be disabled though the answer file.  This is
> speculation, but I think I saw an option for it when reading the
> docs/browsing through WAIK.
>

There is an environment variable that be used to turn off the warnings, and
I suspect UAC can be enabled/disabled via registry settings as well.  It
might also be possible to add "ntinstall" to the list of trusted servers.

> I’m in a bit of a crunch to get this working soon, so I’m planning on
> pounding on it hard in May.  I haven’t spent a ton of time in
> install.pl/WinMedia.pm  I’d like to see your code/changes to
> install.pl/WinMedia.pm, if you’re down with that.
>

Unfortunately, I only made enough modifications to get past the part where
it looks for valid OS.  And that was really just some hard-coded hacks
(modified the if/else where it checks for i386 and amd64 to also look for
source).  Then I just copied the other files it looks for over to my win7 os
directory to get past the read-the-files-and-determine-the-version part.  So
my changes are pretty much worthless in terms of something to build from.

Doug

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